Staff Reporter :
Experts and officials at a function on Wednesday underscored the need for promoting handwashing with soap to prevent diarrheal and acute respiratory infections, which are major causes of child deaths in Bangladesh.
They said handwashing with soap is the most effective and inexpensive way to prevent those diseases. It also can ensure good health for children and elders protecting them from different water-borne diseases.
“Providing access to safe water and sanitation facilities, and promoting proper hygienic behavior are important in reducing the threat of these diseases,” they said this at the function held on the premises of Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital.
The function was organised to mark the ‘Global Handwashing Day’ which coincided with the National Sanitation Month (NSM)-2014 began from Wednesday in the country.
Global Handwashing Day (GHD) was observed in over 100 countries around the world aiming to raise awareness of handwashing with soap as a key approach to disease prevention. In his case statement, the MP said the television channel broadcast a news item headlined ‘Several ministers, MPs patrons of BNP-Jamaat misdeeds’ on September 29.
In the report, it was claimed that Bahar was patronising Monirul Haque Sakku, assistant secretary of Comilla South BNP and mayor of Comilla City Corporation. The report tarnished the image of the MP, he claimed.
