On the occasion of Global Handwashing Day, the global handwashing campaign has been a practice long before the advent of COVID-19 and thus needs to be sustained.
Ghana’s government urges handwashing campaign among the public to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.
Global Handwashing Campaign
She stressed that human hands attract germs, bacteria and viruses in daily activities, Xinhua news agency reported. "This is the fundamental reason hand hygiene should be a daily practice for everybody. Whether there is COVID-19 or not, every individual must adopt it," she added.‘If people stop practicing good hand hygiene, cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, typhoid, and all the other public health infectious diseases, would return, and this will be disastrous.’
As the extension services coordinator at the state-run Community Water and Sanitation Agency, expressed her regret that many Ghanaians had relaxed in their observation of hand hygiene. Moreover, said handwashing facilities that used to be in place at public institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic had been removed, with some becoming part of obsolete equipment to be discarded.
Source-IANS