 In the wake of the global hand washing day, a group has underscored the importance of the commemoration, especially in saving lives and disease prevention. These were the major thrones of the sensitization of workers at the hotel here in Lagos. Plastic in these corresponded Immanuel Lubberbocken was at the sensitization program and now reports. The hand washing day is an international campaign aimed at promoting and hygiene worldwide. It emphasizes the importance of washing ends with soap and at critical points during the day. In 2008, GHD was celebrated for the first time with the aim of raising awareness and importance of hand washing to prevent diseases and infections. To commemorate the day, this organization is imparting the practice of cleanliness on its workers, with the belief that hand washing is a fourth step in reducing the spread of diseases. Citing the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Martin Isaac, the organization's managing partner, emphasizes the importance of hand washing and why they have embarked on this campaign. For us, we're just trying to sensitize people and remind people of the importance of hand wash. You can see back in 2019, 2020, when we had the COVID-19, we all knew that even medicine failed us in a way, so we had to resolve back to the basic principle of washing the hands to keep our hands clean, and that was the quickest and easiest way we were able to fight the COVID-19 and other germs that we deal with from time to time. Basically, our hands carry germs, you know, and maybe it's just about someone serving your water with clean hands or hands that have germs in it here, and you can easily get contaminated that way. You can fetch your water, you drink the water. They say this government should not only be involved in setting up policies, but also in implementing them. Beyond policies, which I know in Nigeria we have good policies, I think one of the key areas we really need to deal with is the implementation of these policies. The government, yes, maybe particularly through the local government, because sometimes you have to take this campaign local, you know, it's not just, it's beyond us here. We stay here. We have access to better water, but when you go to the rural areas, you know, or people who don't have access to information, you know, it's quite a bit of a challenge. So beyond the government, you know, trying to assist and making policies, I think that we need to do more, you know, in terms of educating, in terms of sensitizing people, go to schools, teach children how to wash their hands, teach children about germs. You know, there should be a section that talks about preventive diseases, you know, prevent the germs that, you know, we can prevent just by washing our hands. Some participants speak about involvement. Mostly people take hand washing for granted, but the recent COVID-19 pandemic is supposed to be a high hope now for everybody. Today we don't joke with the Higel law. Health, the Higel law cleanliness, there is a common sense that cleanliness is next to godliness. And until we are conscious of this, honestly, history may be repeating itself one million times. But of course, if we are all conscious that we have to keep our environment safe, then we can conquer a lot of challenges. We know germs, they don't have legs, they don't have hands. It is human beings that actually transport them from one place to another. So that is why washing of hands is important. We also said that your health is in your hands. If you don't wash your hands properly, it means wherever you have gone today, wherever micro-organisms that are deposited in surfaces, you must have actually taken them in your hands and you will keep distributing them from one place to another. The Global Hand Washing Day emphasizes the importance of clean hands for better public health. It also promotes the adoption of the simple yet impactful habit of washing with soap for everyone everywhere. Immanuel Ulububukun, plus TV News.