FG stresses need for frequent hand washing

In an effort to prevent transmission of pathogens that cause diseases to human beings, the Federal Ministry of Water Resources has urged the general public to embrace the habit of hand washing with soap and water especially at critical times to be free from diseases
The Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr. Musa Istifanus, represented by the Director, Planning Research and Statistics, Mr. Adamu Wakil, made this known during the celebration of the 2015 Global Hand Washing Day.
Mr. Istifanus said: “As we join the rest of the international community to commemorate hand washing day. This singular activity of hand washing intends to demonstrate the importance of hygiene to break the chain of faeca-oral diseases transmission, which in turn reduces to barest minimum morbidity and mortality among adults and children particularly those below ages of five.”