When we meet someone, our first connection with them happens through the hands with a handshake. But sometimes our hands pose a threat to our health as they become the main carrier of the germs and bacteria.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, people became conscious to wash hands regularly as it was recommended by doctors. However, the habit has gradually become irregular as the world has recovered from the deadly pandemic. Now, World Health Organisation (WHO) is reminding us to keep washing our hands frequently on October 15, Global Hand Washing Day.

What the WHO says?

Since its inception in 2009, World Hand Hygiene Day has evolved from the WHO’s First Global Patient Safety Challenge, known as Clean Care is Safer Care, and is now part of the WHO IPC Hub & Task Force.

World Hand Hygiene Day 2025 was Established by the World Health Organisation (WHO), World Hand Hygiene Day is an annual global campaign to promote and improve good hand hygiene practices in the healthcare sector.

The day aims to create standard operating procedures (SOPs) at the facility level and incorporate hand hygiene into national infection prevention and control (IPC) strategies, following the WHO’s global action plan and monitoring framework for 2024–2030.

It also highlights how glove use affects the environment and the climate, with a focus on waste management and generation issues that result from unnecessary glove use.

A habit developed during the Covid-19 pandemic

It’s very important, especially when you’re coughing or sneezing, or you feel that you have any kind of sick symptoms. This is why we had such a huge campaign for hand washing when COVID-19 came out. But it’s not only COVID-19, it’s RSV and it’s also other communicable diseases.

Although handwashing with soap is critical in the fight against infectious diseases, including COVID-19,  millions of people around the world have no ready access to a place to wash their hands, UNICEF said ahead of Global Handwashing Day.

“The pandemic has highlighted the critical role of hand hygiene in disease prevention. It has also stressed a preexisting problem for many: Handwashing with soap remains out of reach for millions of children where they’re born, live and learn,” UNISEF said.

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