A district-level learning-sharing workshop for media and other stakeholders was conducted here recently under the Hygiene and Behaviour Change Coalition (HBCC) project being implemented in Koraput and Ganjam districts. The objective was to bring change in hand washing with soap practice among women and children. While hand hygiene is the primary measure to reduce infections, a simple action, perhaps, but the lack of compliance among health- care providers is problematic worldwide.
A range of strategies for hand hygiene promotion and improvement have been proposed under the WHO First Global patient safety challenge- Clean Care is Safer Care. The hand washing with soap (HWWS) is one of the most low cost effective measures to prevent Covid-19 virus, diarrhea and pneumonia related child death.
The workshop was attended by Brahmapur Sub-Collector V Keerthi Vasan, district Social Welfare Officer Puspanjali Mishra, CDPO Gitanjali Panigrahi and the programmee was coordinated by Sanjeev Kumar Nayak.
Prominent among others who spoke were Berhampur Press Club president Biswanath Patanaik, vice president Narayan Mahankuda,
The Puineer Correspondent Prasant Das and Senior Journalists Sudeep Sahu, Satya Chetan Parida, Amar Kumar Das and HBCC Surekha Mall.