A national hand-washing programme, Hand Washing With Soap (HWWS), funded by the World Bank and other donors has been unveiled to curb diseases like cholera and diarrhoeal infections.
Speaking in Kisumu during a workshop attended by public health officers from various districts in Nyanza province, the country hand washing co-ordinator, Mr Rufus Eshuchi, said that most diseases like cholera and diarrhoea infections were at a high rate due to improper hand washing behaviour.
The Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP) is supporting the Ministry of Health in a campaign that will have hand washing as part of its activities, to check cholera.
The first phase of the project, which is expected to cost US$ 200,000 (Sh12.4 million), and run for three years, starts in September 2008, in selected towns across the country. WSP had used US$ 50,000 (Sh3 million) in preparation for the programme, which would benefit many residents of Kisumu town, in the wake of a cholera outbreak in Nyanza.
Sources: East African Standard / allAfrica.com, 28 Apr 2008 ; Business Daily / allAfrica.com, 28 Apr 2008
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