Experience 'Proper Handwashing' Together in the View Box! ... The First Step in Infectious Disease Prevention

Pohang Buk-gu Health Center, Handwashing Experience

View Box Installation ... Public Promotion

The Buk-gu Public Health Center in Pohang City installed a view box for experiencing proper handwashing to prevent infectious diseases in the lobby on the first floor of the health center starting from the 2nd.

Handwashing view box installed in the lobby on the 1st floor of Buk-gu Health Center.

The handwashing view box is a device that applies fluorescent lotion acting as bacteria, then after washing hands as usual, it allows users to check for any remaining fluorescent substances, visually confirming how properly they wash their hands.

Proper handwashing is the easiest and most effective way to prevent many infectious diseases. Washing hands well can reduce diarrheal diseases such as bacterial dysentery and typhoid fever by about 30%, and respiratory diseases like influenza and colds by about 20%.

Accordingly, the Buk-gu Public Health Center visits daycare centers in the area with many preschool children to provide ‘Proper Handwashing Education’ and lends the ‘Handwashing Education View Box’ to elementary schools. Additionally, to raise awareness among local residents, it conducts a ‘Handwashing Public Promotion Campaign’ in collaboration with related organizations to encourage citizens to practice proper handwashing.

Park Hye-kyung, director of the Buk-gu Public Health Center, said, “As the indoor mask-wearing mandate is gradually lifted, adherence to personal hygiene, cough etiquette, and other daily quarantine rules, along with practicing proper handwashing, has become more important than ever. We hope citizens will practice proper handwashing, the first step in preventing infectious diseases.”

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