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Handwashing Day: UNICEF warns inadequate hygiene endangers development goal

Handwashing Day: UNICEF warns inadequate hygiene endangers development goal

Oct 16, 2015, at 01:14 pm

New York, Oct 16 (IBNS): More than 40 per cent of health facilities have no water resources within 500 metres in sub-Saharan Africa where the practice of handwashing with soap is dangerously low even though it is "one of the cheapest, simplest, most effective health interventions," the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday.