Ruby Leo
14 October 2011
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said that the simple task of hand washing is capable of saving the lives of over 150,000 Nigerian children annually who die from communicable disease.
In a press release signed by the Fund's communication specialist, Mr Geoffrey Njoku said, "in Nigeria, diarrhoea is the cause of some 194,000 deaths of children under five every year, the second highest rate in the world."
Dr. Suomi Sakai, Representative of UNICEF, said washing hands with soap or ash and water at critical times reduce the incidence of diarrhoea
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