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Sanitation Practices And Implication On Students Health
[A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (TECHNICAL) ENUGU]
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1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY:-
World Health
Organization defined sanitation as the means of collecting and disposing
excreta and community liquids, waste in a hygienic way. So as not to
endanger the health and welfare and also for the social and
environmental effects, it may have on people; people have been suffering
from one disease to another without knowing the problems of their
illness, the situation and due to distress or dirty environment.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
Similarly, Iheke (2010) sees
sanitation as the process of keeping places clean and hygienic
especially by providing a sewage system and a clean water supply.
Sanitation refers to all conditions that affects the health of people in
a geographical area. Billions of people still live without access to
sanitation facilities and are unable to practice such basic hygienic as
washing their hands with soap and water.
Disease related to poor
sanitation and water availability cause many people to die of sickness
like cholera, diarrhea, malaria, typhoid, which damages the body
tissues. Children are most vulnerable to health hazards and consequently
are affected the most. In 1998, 2.2 million people died because of poor
sanitation, which the vast majority were children.
In 1950 the world
health organizations expert committee on environmental sanitation
defines environmental sanitation as the control of community, water
supplies, excreta and waste water disposal, refuse disposal, vector of
diseases, housing conditions, food supplies and handling conditions,
food supplies and atmospheric conditions and the safety of the working
environment. Environmental problems have grown in complexity especially
with the advert of radiation and chemical hazards. Meanwhile the world
needs for the basic sanitation services (like drinking water supply,
excreta and waste water disposal), have greatly increased as a result of
rapid population growth and highly expectations.
There has been
considerable awareness of water supply in institution, but the problems
of excreta and waste disposal have receive less attention. In Enugu
State College of Education (Technical), every where is littered with
pure water polythene, pieces of papers and so on, without proper
disposal. In order to focus attention of these problems. Sanitation
exercise should be done daily to keep the environment clean by employing
labourers that will help keep the school clean. Environments should be
formulated in order to kill dangerous animals like snake, scorpion etc.
In
school hostels, there are problems of over-crowding and these affects
the health of the students in the hostel. More than 200 students share
four (4) toilets. Mostly girls in hostel have inadequate sanitation
facilities. With this premise, the researchers seek to find out the
implication of sanitation practices on students health in Enugu State
College of Education (Technical). Inadequate sanitation and water in
school jeopardize not only the students health but also their
attendance. Girls in particular area likely to be kept out of school, if
there is no sanitation.
Seminars should be organized in institutions
to help educate students more, especially girls in the hostel on
menstrual hygiene, sanitation hygienic practices, cleanliness in the
surroundings. To make everywhere conducive for teaching and learning,
lack of skills and this have hindered the educational prospects of girls
residing in the hostel. Flies petch on dirts, toilet etc and later
petch on uncovered foods and all this are dangerous to human health.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Sanitation practice implication on students health in Enugu State College of Education (Technical) has been the desire of every right thinking for good health of both the students and lecturers in the above school. The purposes of this study is to investigate the causes of poor sanitation practices on students health in ESCET, the dangers and the strategies which could be employ to curb poor sanitation in ESCET. One hundred questionnaire were administered to the respondents, which was correctly ... Continue reading---
