As part of efforts to improve environmental health, the health education unit of the Department of State for health in conjunction with UNILET organised a two-day community based hygiene.

Education and promotion of household water treatment for the community of Ebo town, in KMD his prolonged community based hygiene is in four areas, water management, sanitation, personal hygiene and food safety.

In his welcome remarks at the opening of the workshop, Mr. Amadou Sowe, programme Manager, Health Education said that Environmental Health has one major objective and that is to eradicate mortality that is associated with infectious diseases of major public health importance, by improving environmental conditions as making exposure to disease agents. Mr. Sowe added that lack of safety water, basic sanitation and hygiene may account for as much as 88 percent of disease burden due to diarrhoea.

“In waste, sanitation and hygiene is therefore one of the top ten prevention intervention for the deaths of under fives,” he said. He further added that “to facilitate further progress in reducing the over all morbidity associated with diarrhoea, more attention had to be paid in other to improve the hygiene condition in our communities, hygiene which has demonstrated effectively in term of public health impact, he concluded.