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Sanitary Practices And Implications On Off-campus Students Health
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There has been considerable awareness of water supply in off-campus
hostels, but the problems of excreta and waste disposal have received
less attention. In some of these hostels, every where is littered with
pure water polythene, pieces of paper and so on, without proper disposal
(Erijakpor, 2006). In order to focus attention to these to these
problems, sanitation exercises should be done daily to keep the
environment clean by employing labourers that will keep the hostels
clean(Anyaka, 2004). Some of the students in these hostels have poor
sanitary and hygienic practices that can cause diseases. Environments
should be fumigated in order to kill dangerous animals and rodents like
snakes, rats, scorpions etc.
Inadequate sanitation is a major cause
of disease world-wide and improving sanitation is known to have a
significant beneficial impact on health both in households, school
hostels (on campus or off-campus) and across communities (Guiterez,
1992). The word “sanitation†also refers to the maintenance of hygienic
conditions, through services such as garbage collection and wastewater
disposal.
Sanitation includes all four of these engineering
infrastructure items (even though often only the first one is strongly
associated with the term “sanitationâ€):
Excreta management systems
Wastewater management systems
Solid waste management systems
Drainage systems for rainwater.(Strauss, 2000).
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