Health Desk- 24 March 2020: Good hand hygiene
protects you and those around you. One of the most important contributions we
can make to slowing down transmission of COVID-19 and keeping ourselves and our
communities safe is to wash our hands. This is the main message of World Water
Day 2020 on 22 March, and everyone has a role to play.
The provision of safe water, sanitation and adequate hygiene
(WASH) is essential to protecting human health during all infectious disease
outbreaks.
Ensuring good and consistently applied WASH, environmental
cleaning and waste management practices in communities, homes, schools,
marketplaces and health-care facilities will further help to prevent
human-to-human transmission of the COVID-19 virus. Strictly following good
handwashing and personal hygiene practices is important for all, but especially
in health-care settings, where it protects both patients and health-care
workers.
Safe hygiene standards require a continuous and adequate
supply of safe water, and sanitation systems that will continue to function
even under stress or challenging conditions, such as under a changing climate.
Within the WHO European Region, we have a strong
multilateral mechanism: the Protocol on Water and Health to the 1992 Convention
on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International
Lakes.
The Protocol’s primary objective is to promote the
protection of human health and well-being within a framework of sustainable
development, through improving water management, including the protection of
water ecosystems, and through preventing, controlling and reducing
water-related disease.
Courtesy: WHO
http://amarhealth.com/Spot-Light/4772/WorldWaterDayhighlightsroleofhandwashing
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