Editing El Salvador (section)

==Infrastructure==
The level of access [[Water supply and sanitation in El Salvador|to water supply and sanitation]] has been increased significantly. A 2015 conducted study by the University of North Carolina called El Salvador the country that has achieved the greatest progress in the world in terms of increased access to water supply and sanitation and the reduction of inequity in access between urban and rural areas.<ref>{{cite web|title=The WASH Performance Index Report|url=http://waterinstitute.unc.edu/wash-performance-index-report/|editor1=The Water Institute|editor2=University of North Carolina|access-date=23 October 2015|archive-date=15 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151215084754/http://waterinstitute.unc.edu/wash-performance-index-report/|url-status=live}}</ref> However, water resources are seriously polluted and a large part of the wastewater discharged into the environment without any treatment. Institutionally a single public institution is both de facto in charge of setting sector policy and of being the main service provider. Attempts at reforming and modernizing the sector through new laws have not borne fruit over the past 20 years.
[[File:Hospital El Salvador.jpg|thumb|Hospital El Salvador]]

In response to the [[COVID-19]] pandemic, the government converted the country's main convention centre into [[Hospital El Salvador]] to be the largest hospital in [[Latin America]]. The facility was inaugurated by the president on 22 June 2020, at which time he announced the hospital conversion would be permanent because of the large investment made.<ref name="lanotta">{{Cite news |last=Reyes |first=Scarlett |date=22 June 2020 |title=Pandemia: El Salvador inauguró el hospital más grande América Latina |trans-title=Pandemic: El Salvador opens the largest hospital in Latin America |work=La Notta |url=https://lanotta.com/el-salvador-inauguro-el-hospital-mas-grande-america-latina/ |access-date=28 June 2020 |archive-date=29 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629001214/https://lanotta.com/el-salvador-inauguro-el-hospital-mas-grande-america-latina/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="efe">{{Cite news |date=22 June 2020 |title=El Salvador inaugura primera fase de un hospital exclusivo para la COVID-19 |language=es |trans-title=El Salvador inaugurates first phase of a hospital exclusively for COVID-19 |work=EFE |url=https://www.efe.com/efe/america/sociedad/el-salvador-inaugura-primera-fase-de-un-hospital-exclusivo-para-la-covid-19/20000013-4277484 |access-date=28 June 2020 |archive-date=30 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630221215/https://www.efe.com/efe/america/sociedad/el-salvador-inaugura-primera-fase-de-un-hospital-exclusivo-para-la-covid-19/20000013-4277484 |url-status=live }}</ref> US$25&nbsp;million was spent on the first phase of the conversion of the former convention centre,{{r|comercio}} with the entire facility costing $75&nbsp;million and featuring a blood bank, morgue, radiology area, among other amenities.{{r|efe}}<ref name="comercio">{{Cite news |date=24 June 2020 |title=Nayib Bukele inaugura en El Salvador primera fase del 'mejor hospital de Latinoamérica' exclusivo para covid-19 |language=es |trans-title=Nayib Bukele opens in El Salvador the first phase of the "best hospital in Latin America" exclusively for COVID-19 |work=El Comercio |agency=AFP |url=https://www.elcomercio.com/actualidad/bukele-hospital-uci-covid-salvador.html |access-date=28 June 2020 |archive-date=26 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626233241/https://www.elcomercio.com/actualidad/bukele-hospital-uci-covid-salvador.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The hospital will have a total capacity of 1,083 ICU beds and 2,000 beds total once phase 3 is completed.{{r|lanotta}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=22 June 2020 |title=El Salvador inaugura un hospital solo para pacientes de la COVID-19 con una capacidad de 2.000 camas |language=es |trans-title=El Salvador opens a hospital exclusively for COVID-19 patients with a capacity of 2,000 beds |work=Europa Press |url=https://www.europapress.es/internacional/noticia-salvador-inaugura-hospital-solo-pacientes-covid-19-capacidad-2000-camas-20200622041616.html |access-date=29 June 2020 |archive-date=30 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630012606/https://www.europapress.es/internacional/noticia-salvador-inaugura-hospital-solo-pacientes-covid-19-capacidad-2000-camas-20200622041616.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The airport serving international flights in El Salvador is [[Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport]]. This airport is located about {{convert|40|km|mi|abbr=on}} southeast of San Salvador.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aeropuertoelsalvador.gob.sv/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060213150000/http://www.aeropuertoelsalvador.gob.sv/|archive-date=13 February 2006|title=CEPA – Aeropuerto Internacional de El Salvador|publisher=Aeropuertoelsalvador.gob.sv|access-date=2 May 2010}}</ref>