Delhi observes global hand-washing day

  • 16/10/2008

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)

NEW DELHI Every 20 seconds a mother mourns a dead child lost to diarrhoea, a completely preventable and utterly inexcusable cause of death. Each year 1.5 million children, under the age of five years, die from diarrhoeal related diseases. Quoting these global figures, the Sulabh Sanitation movement founder Dr Bindeshwar Pathak pointed out that five of 10 top killer diseases of children in India are related to water and sanitation and include diarrhea, typhoid, jaundice, malaria, hookworm and even pneumonia. The Sulabh International, one of the largest NGO in the country, observed the