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Proper handwashing may save the lives of 800 children a day worldwide – UNICEF

Proper handwashing may save the lives of 800 children a day worldwide – UNICEF

Oct 15, 2016, at 01:37 pm

New York, Oct 15 (Just Earth News): On the eve of Global Handwashing Day, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reported that more than 300,000 children under the age of five died last year due to diarrhoeal infections linked to a lack of safe drinking water and sanitation – a rate of 800 per day that could have been prevented by proper handwashing.