Jan 23, 2012

Poor Hygiene, Bane Of Good Health

Fix sanitation; fix diseases is  how experts have summed up  the need for a clean environment and good personal hygiene so as to stop the transmission of communicable diseases, writes WINIFRED OGBEBO.

The cliché that cleanliness is next to Godliness has still not found expression in our society, nay environment.
Yet, scientists hold the view that most sicknesses and deaths could be prevented or kept at bay if our environments were clean.
According to a Water and Sanitation Specialist with the United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF), Dr Bisi Agberemi, if you fix sanitation, you can fix some of these child-killer diseases like malaria, cholera and polio on a sustainable basis.

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