Anti-influenza A / H5N1: Wash your hands with soap

According to a survey of the health sector, in some provinces, 9 out of 10 people do not wash their hands before eating and after going to the toilet. The Ministry of Health called for " Wash your hands with soap . " to fight against diseases, including A / H5N1 flu.

Wash your hands with soap to prevent influenza A / H5N1.(Photo: Ngoc Huyen)

"Wash your hands with soap to prevent influenza A / H5N1" . That is the call of Deputy Minister of Health Trinh Quan Huan at the launching ceremony " Hand washing with soap " held in Ha Tay. May 8. The ceremony aimed at responding to the National Week of Clean Water and Environmental Sanitation in 2007.

The purpose of the launching ceremony is to propagate and raise people's awareness of the importance of hand washing with soap to prevent infectious diseases such as cholera, dysentery, typhoid, hepatitis A, limb disease . especially influenza A / H5N1.

Speaking at the ceremony, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Trinh Quan Huan - Deputy Minister of Health called on people to raise awareness about the importance and benefits of hand washing with soap and disease prevention and taking behavior. Frequent hand washing with soap becomes a civilized lifestyle of society.

At the same time, in the misery of the launching ceremony, Vice Minister Trinh Quan Huan directed the Vietnam Preventive Medicine Department to work closely with relevant units to develop specific plans to continue implementing the activities well. campaign nationwide.

The Deputy Minister requested the health sector in the special provinces of 5 provinces of Ha Tinh, Thanh Hoa, Ha Nam, Ha Tay and Hai Phong, supported by Unilever Vietnam Fund to implement the project "Improving community health through improving personal hygiene and environmental hygiene behavior " must implement the project activities well, build effective community mobilization models to do lessons to be able to multiply .

The launching ceremony attracted more than 1,400 participants, most of them students,
students and residents of Ha Tay province. (Photo Ngoc Huyen)

Washing hands with soap is a very simple job, everyone can do it on a regular basis, but in fact the proportion of people doing this behavior is very low.

According to the most recent survey by the Ministry of Health, the proportion of people who wash their hands with soap before eating and after going to the toilet in some provinces is only 12%.

The ceremony attracted more than 1,400 people in which most of Ha Tay's teachers, students and students attended. After the launching ceremony of Van Yen Primary School, TP. Ha Dong, Ha Tay province organized an extra-curricular class for the pupils of the school to maintain personal hygiene, wash their hands with soap before meals and after going to the toilet .

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