According to the Public Health Association, only 53 per cent of the population wash hands with soap after defecation, 38 per cent wash hands with soap before eating and only 30 per cent wash hands with soap before preparing food. • Only 11 per cent of the Indian rural families dispose child stools safely. 80 per cent children’s stools are left in the open or thrown into the garbage. • Only 6 per cent of rural children less than five years of age use toilets. • WASH Interventions significantly reduce diarrhoeal morbidity; statistically it has been shown that: • Handwashing with soap reduces it by 44 per cent • Household water treatment by 39 per cent • Sanitation by 36 per cent • Water supply by 23 per cent • Source water treatment by 11 per cent Source: UNICEF India
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:02:54 +0000
Trending Topics
© 2015