BSS, Khulna :
Speakers at a workshop here yesterday stressed the need for environment-friendly sanitation and safe water to ensure sound health for the people.
For this reason, safe water must be ensured, they said adding that there is no alternative to effective measures for protecting health as well as regular hand wash, they added.
They also viewed that people of all ages including children would get relief from different diseases like diarrhoea, if they wash their hands regularly.
The workshop was held at the conference room of Khulna deputy commissioner in observance of National Sanitation Month October and World hand wash day 2014.
Khulna Divisional Administration, Khulna District Administration, Khulna City Corporation (KCC), Directorate of Public Health Engineering and NGO Forum for Health Publicity , organised the workshop with Khulna deputy commissioner Anis Mahmud in the chair.
Khulna divisional commissioner Md. Abdus Samad addressed the workshop as the chief guest while chief executive officer of KCC Md. Abdul Hannan Biswas, Superintending engineer of Khulna Circle of Directorate of Public Health Engineering S M Wahidul Islam and Khulna Range Director of Ansar and VDP Md. Akbor Ali addressed it as special guests.
Professor Abdullah Harun of Environmental Science Discipline of Khulna University presented the key note paper while regional manager of Khulna NGO Forum Khondoker Rakibuzzaman delivered the welcome speech.
The speakers also underscored the need for using sanitary toilet of all members of the family and urged not to defecate under the open sky or at any unhygienic toilet.
A hand wash program was displayed before the workshop which was followed by a cultural function.
Engineers of Public Health in different district in Khulna division, Officials of Education and Information Department, UP members, and different NGOs who work with sanitation and other officials attended the workshop.
