Hwaseong-si Operates 'Infectious Disease Prevention Promotion Experience Center' at Western Health Center

Hwaseong City in Gyeonggi-do will operate an infectious disease prevention promotion experience center at the Hwaseong City Western Health Center until November.

Citizens are experiencing handwashing at the 'Infectious Disease Prevention Promotion Experience Center' set up at Hwaseong City Western Health Center.
[Photo by Hwaseong City]

The experience center provides various information and proper infectious disease prevention guidelines so that any citizen can protect their health from infectious diseases in daily life. At the center, visitors can experience programs on ▲prevention guidelines for waterborne and foodborne infectious diseases ▲methods to prevent seasonal epidemic infectious diseases ▲education on cough etiquette ▲handwashing programs for infectious disease prevention.

On-site education and experiences are available without prior reservation. For more details, contact the Infectious Disease Management Division of Hwaseong City Western Health Center.

Meanwhile, the city is promoting various public-private cooperative projects for infectious disease prevention. To this end, the city will distribute about 900 related promotional kits to food hygiene establishments in the area. Related social organizations will support prevention education and handwashing promotion at food hygiene establishments, and the Department of Health Management at Kyeongseong University will assist in operating the handwashing experience program at the center.

Shim Jeong-sik, director of Hwaseong City Western Health Center, said, "Through the operation of the experience center, we will strive to establish citizens' awareness of infectious disease prevention and create a healthy community by blocking the spread of infectious diseases in the local community."

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