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Hello everyone,it's a new week and the 6th week of prowriters hub that is always organized by @steemalive and I welcome you all to the week, I pray that we all be successful this week.

In today's article I will be teaching us why washing of hands it's very necessary and how to properly wash our hands and I believe that after this article we all including myself will be addicted to regular washing of hands.

Proper ways to wash hands

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Before a person should say he/she has washed there hands properly, the person should have washed there hands for atleast 2 minutes and during that period of time applied the following ways below:

• Wetting Hands: Before a person starts washing his/her hands, to the person should wet his/her hands with a running clean water and also a liquid soap

• Rub your palms:After wetting your hands with a running clean water, the next thing you should do is to rub your two palms together

• After rubbing your palms together you have to rub the back of your hands

• Interlink your fingers after rubbing your palms. Interlinking of fingers should be done through the front and also back hands.

• Use your fingers to scrub your palms

• After scrubing your palms with your fingers you will have to clean your thumb nails

• After doing all this you will then put on the running water and rinse your hands properly. Make sure that there is no soup particles in your hands then dry your hands with a nice and clean material/towel. By so doing a person can now say his/her hands are properly washed.

Washing our hands is very important and there are some things we do that requires us to wash our hands before or after doing it and below are some of the things

• Before and after eating our food we should wash our hands

• After using the toilet one should make sure that his/her hands are properly washed

• People should wash there hands after touching some certain things like dirty rags,waste products etc.

Why running Water and liquid soap is the best.

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Just like a river, people say that swimming in a flowing river is good but it's very bad to swim in a stagnant river because the stagnant river is always polluted since it does not take away some pollutants that it receives rather accumulates the pollutants and when humans goes to swim inside, it will end up polluting the humans but the flowing water moves away all pollutants and keep a fresh water, that is why it is best to use a running water that will carry away all sorts of dirt and bacteria than pouring water in a bowl that will just accumulate the bacterias and dirt's and give it back to you.

It is recommended that we use a liquid soap to wash our hands because it removes dirt's and kills bacteria faster than the tablet soap. When you want your hands to be hydrated, liquid soap will help you do that but a tablet soap will dehydrate your palms. But one can still use any of the soaps to wash there hands.

If I am not close to a running tap what will I do

When you are not close to a running tap shouldn't be an excuse to regular washing of hands. When you are away from a running tap you can still ask your family members or friends to pour water on your hands using a bowl and even if they are not close to you, you can still use a bowl and pour water on your hands keep the bowl and wash your hands.

Diseases that can be prevented by washing of hands

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There are a lot of diseases that can be prevented just by washing of hands you now see why washing of hands it's very necessary. We go out and we touch so many things even the ones that have germs and the one's that are free from germ and when we know touch any part of our body or our foods without proper washing of hands we the germs can easily enter and turn into a disease.

• Coronavirus
• Mononucleosis
• Staph
• Ebola
• Hepatitis A etc

What can be done to create more public awareness about hand washing and it's importance.

• Government should or even private sectors should run some paid ads about washing of hands.

• Hospitals or health centers that is managed by government and private sectors should provide running tap outside the environment where people can wash there hands and they should make sure that there's liquid soap close to the tap always.

• Private business or government should put a law about washing of hands which is, "Any one that does not wash his/her hands should not have access to there business or building"

Conclusion

There is a saying that it is easy and fast to learn bad things but very difficult to learn things that are beneficial. People in my community don't wash there hands regularly even places to wash hands has been provided but they are no longer in use. Washing of hands regularly is not common in my community and if it is done it's just by few persons. We should learn how to wash our hands because I will try my best to do that always
Thanks for reading❤️