Archives of
Yr. 2016-17
ANDWASHING MPLEMENTATION FOR OOD EALTH
HAND HYGIENE : AWARENESS & SAFE PRACTICES
SERVING SINCE 2013
According to a review in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in yr 2015, based on 22 randomized clinical trials in both, developed and under-developed countries, proper hand hygiene can reduce incidence of diarrheal diseases upto 30% among children and adults in day-care centres, schools, communities, or hospitals. These trials enrolled 69,309 children and 148 adults. It was observed that effects of hand washing promotion on related hand hygiene behaviour changes improved more in the intervention groups than in the control in all the settings. Diarrheal diseases are one of the common causes of malnutrition. They can also negatively affect a student's attendance in school. Hence we took up this project to promote hand hygiene awareness & good practice among children.
The program has served several thousand kids till date. We have made it an integral component of every medical camp we conduct. In the past, we have also helped our twin clubs in Guyana, South Africa, Pakistan, USA & Brazil to replicate this model for children in their community. To ensure sustainability, we rope in teachers/guardians. Teachers are trained and instructed to revise key concepts of Hand Hygiene periodically (schedule is tailor-made for each site by us). The revision is meant to reiterate knowledge on appropriate Hand Hygiene. It has been incorporated in school extra-curriculum at several of our sites. The programme is still running, with persistent efforts to increase outreach...
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Thanks to our new partnership with Municipal Corporation Of Greater Mumbai (BMC), we will be extending this program to all municipal schools in our adopted 'H east' ward. This is a part of our upcoming health education initiative 'Udaan' (2017-18)for the >13,000 students enrolled in these BMC run schools in 'H east' ward.
