Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Washing hands using soap can reduce diarrheal attacks by 40 percent making it the most expensive drugs in lowering child mortality due to killer of children is often forgotten. "The United Nations has recommended, wash hands before eating and after the activity is easy and inexpensive way to prevent the transmission of diarrhea," said Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health Department Tjandra Yoga Aditama, in Building PP Muhammadiyah Jakarta.
Tjandra said the government was trying to make healthy behavior as people's habits by campaigning with running.
He explained that in addition to hand washing with soap campaign, improvement of sanitation facilities and clean water supply and waste management is also very important in the prevention of disease.
These include infectious diseases through water, food and drink that up to now the leading killer of children aged under five years.
The latest report of World Health Organization (WHO) entitled 'diarrhea: Why Children are Still Dying and What Can Be Done "says each year 1.5 million children under five die from diarrhea or second greatest cause of death in infants.
In Indonesia, according to the Health Research Association (Riskesdas) In 2007, the diarrhea causes death of 31.4 per cent of infants aged 29 days to 11 months and 25.2 percent of children aged one year to four years. (*)