PERSONAL HYGIENE: THE BENEFITS OF SANITATION

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Hygiene means cleanliness as a means of preventing disease. Cleanliness they say is next to Godliness. Thus whenever we talk about sanitation or personal hygiene people think it is just wearing neat clothes and sweeping our homes and environment only. This important health habit includes the totality of man ranging from himself to his environment, to his nutrition,sewage disposal habit, infact to everything pertaining to him.
Personal hygiene is very important due to various and harmful bacteria which will become a menance and possibly cause health challenge if man is infested by it.
The increase in life span and the improved quality of life for the past few centuries could be attributed to the improvement on personal hygiene due to current health awareness and campaign.
In the time past, Surgeons in the pre- industrial societies would often operate on patients without washing their hands properly because the did not understand the concept of bacteria. Therefor, bacteria were introduced to the patients through open incision.
Furthermore, cleaning and sterilizing of clinical instrument were not done before now, but today sterilizing and calibration of clinical instrument is a norm. o
Personal hygiene determine business in the offices today, no one want to transact business in a dirty environment or with a dirty client.o
Personal hygiene plays an important role in good health condition, for instance drinking contaminated water or using can cause serious damage to the health. The effect of this bacteria infested water could cause typhoid fever and other water borne diseases.o
However, let us make personal hygiene our personal responsibility and sanitation our collective responsibility because health is wealth.
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