27/07/2025
Hand Hygiene-How to protect yourself and your family.
✅️Drink and use safe water.
-Boil drinking water or treat it with chlorine always to make it safe
-Brush your teeth with boiled or chlorinated water
-Wash hands with safe water before preparing food
-Use boiled or chlorinated water when making ice
cubes
-Wash hands with safe water before preparing food
-Clean food preparation areas and cooking utensils with safe water and let them dry completely before reuse
-Piped water sources may not be safe and should be boiled or treated with chlorine.
-Buy bottled water from known and trusted sources especially when travelling
-Store your treated water always in a clean, covered
container with a small opening. Use the water only
within 24 hours of collection.
-Do not dip cups in drinking water.
✅️Wash your hands with soap and running safe
water:
-Before you eat or prepare food.
-Before feeding your children.
-After using the latrine/toilet.
-After cleaning your child or changing the child’s diapers.
-After taking care of someone ill with diarrhoea.
If no soap is available, scrub hands often with ash or sand and rinse with safe water.
✅️Cook food well, keep it covered, eat it hot, and peel fruits and vegetables.
-Avoid eating raw foods.
-Be sure to cook food thoroughly before eating.
-Always wash fruits and vegetables with clean and
safe water.
-Clean up surfaces in the kitchen and in places
where the family bathes and washes clothes with
disinfectants.
-Fruits and vegetables should be peeled by yourself.
-Do not eat food from the streets or unlicensed public eating places.
-Cover the food and heat it before eating it.
-Boil it, Cook it, Peel it, or Leave it.
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Photo/Message Cred: Health Promotions Unit HQ, Communications Unit HQ, Chililabombwe District Health Office.
Ministry of Health Zambia
World Health Organization African Region
