HEALTHY START ACTIVITIES
WaterAid Ghana held some actives to launch their four year advocacy programme called Healthy Start. The programme will focus on improving the health and nutrition of new born babies and children.
WAG interns to achieve this by advocating for access to water, sanitation and hygiene promotion to be integrated into health policy and delivery at the local, regional and national level.
Access to clean water, safe sanitation and hygiene service is a basic human right. Together they constitute essential building blocks for good health and absence has a particularly devastating impact on children.
The link between unhygienic conditions and practice justifies the need for plans, policy and programme measures that ensure that healthcare facilities meeting basic standards of clean water, sanitation and hygiene.
WaterAid Ghana believes that all healthcare facilities must be equipped with water and sanitation facilities as a matter of urgency and health systems must be held to account for ensuring these standards are met.
Everyone particularly people in authority must work together to ensure that the most vulnerable members of society do not have their life expectancy reduce mere weeks, just because there is no clean water in which to bath them or soap to clean the hands of their care givers.
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