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अगर आप छींक रहे हैं या फिर खांस रहे हैं तो अपने मुंह के सामने टिश्यू ज़रूर रखें और अगर आपके पास उस वक़्त टिश्यू ना हो तो अपने हाथ को आगे कर कोहनी की ओट में छीकें या खांसें.
अगर आपने कोई टिश्यू इस्तेमाल किया है तो उसे जितनी जल्दी हो सके डिस्पोज़ कर दें. अगर आप ऐसा नहीं करते हैं तो इसमें मौजूद वायरस दूसरों को भी संक्रमित कर सकते हैं.
यही वजह है कि लोगों को सोशल डिस्टेंसिंग के नियमों का पालन करने को कहा जा रहा है. सोशल डिस्टेंसिंग के तहत लोगों को एक-दूसरे से कम से कम दो मीटर दूर रहने की सलाह दी गई है.
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With people advised to observe physical distancing and good hygiene habits amidst the pandemic, health experts have constantly reminded that the simple practice of handwashing with soap and clean water is also one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread of germs and viruses.
For Bolanle Popoola, a laboratory technician, imbibing the act of handwashing regularly with soap had required deliberate effort despite the knowledge that this could save her and her family from contracting infections as well as prevent them from spreading germs and viruses. She explained that she found it easier to continue with her work without washing her hands with soap because she most times wears a glove.
"With the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been taking extra effort to wash my hands with soap and water. I knew this before the outbreak, but there are times you neglect doing the right thing. We are told right from childhood to always wash our hands after playing, before eating, after using the toilet, and as often as possible. Handwashing is not only for people working in laboratories or hospitals. It is for everybody. You don't know what bacteria or germ you might have picked from the rails, from door handles, or other surfaces, she says.
Raising awareness on the importance of hygiene
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO with support of international health partners like UNICEF, UNIDO, UNFPA, IOM, OCHA and UNHCR, has been supporting the Federal Government in raising awareness on the importance of hand hygiene and integrated waste management to reduce risk behaviours among Nigerians. Many of which are beginning to yield success.
To Influence behavioural change, WHO developed and disseminated 1000 Metallic Handwashing Notices to agencies and ministries, departments and agencies. The notices contain the steps for proper handwashing and emphatic orientation that proper hand hygiene prevents coronavirus, Lassa fever, Cholera and several diseases and between March to October, over 50,250 persons have been influenced in both government and humanitarian space with the intervention.
WHO has also supported the government at national and sub-national levels to develop and adapt WASH, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and environmental disinfection Guidelines, including, the capacity building for environmental health surveillance focal points in 36 states and FCT on hygiene compliance and disinfection of health care facilities, schools and airports.
Also, to reduce the burden of the Lassa Fever outbreak in Edo and Ondo states where the disease is endemic, WHO supported the training of 250 women on domestic hygiene and 400 community volunteers and 200 youths on community hygiene and sanitation in 4 LGA areas in both states. WHO also pioneered the development of a community action plan using community chiefs and Elders in Owo LGA covering hygiene and sanitation promotion of which about 550,000 people were reached with hand hygiene messages for preventing Lassa fever infections.
Significance of handwashing
The COVID-19 outbreak has overly emphasised the importance of handwashing with soap to reduce the spread of the virus. The Global Handwashing Day celebrated on 15 October, was founded by the Global Handwashing partners and is an opportunity to design creative ways to encourage people to wash their hands with soap at critical times.
The theme for this year’s celebration is “Hand Hygiene for All” and in light of the COVID-19 pandemic reinforces the importance of handwashing with soap as a sure way of preventing infection from other infectious diseases such as Lassa fever, Cholera, common cold, some foodborne diseases and several gastrointestinal disorders, such as norovirus.
Buttressing the importance of the day, the WHO Nigeria Country Representative (WR), Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo represented by the National Consultant, Public Health and Environment, Dr Edwin Isotu Edeh noted that “achieving universal access and practice of hand hygiene in all settings and sectors is essential not only to preventing the spread of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, and also for overall health and well-being.”