SMO makes students aware of hand-washing benefits

  • | Friday | 21st July, 2017

Hands often act as vectors that carry disease-causing pathogens from person to person, either through direct contact or indirectly via surfaces. Gulati said handwashing is a life-saving intervention within the technological and financial reach of all communities. Tribune News ServiceLudhiana, July 20During the ongoing Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight, students of the Khanna Government High School (No 8) were given practical demonstration of washing hands with soap by Dr Rajinder Gulati, Senior Medical Officer, Civil Hospital, Khanna. “When not washed with soap, hands that have been in contact with human or animal feces, bodily fluids such as nasal excretions and contaminated foods or water can transport bacteria, viruses and parasites to unwitting hosts.”

Ludhiana, July 20 During the ongoing Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight, students of the Khanna Government High School (No 8) were given practical demonstration of washing hands with soap by Dr Rajinder Gulati, Senior Medical Officer, Civil Hospital, Khanna. Gulati said handwashing is a life-saving intervention within the technological and financial reach of all communities. Hands often act as vectors that carry disease-causing pathogens from person to person, either through direct contact or indirectly via surfaces. “When not washed with soap, hands that have been in contact with human or animal feces, bodily fluids such as nasal excretions and contaminated foods or water can transport bacteria, viruses and parasites to unwitting hosts.”

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