Nigeria: Expert Highlights Importance of Hygiene in Health Care

A member of the Global Hygiene Council, Dr. Nneoma Idika has said that hygiene promotion is a significant component of global health care delivery and applauded the various hygiene promotion initiatives by the anti-germs protection brand, Dettol, in Nigeria. She commended Reckitt Benckiser for its hygiene-focused corporate social responsibility initiatives on the platform of its flagship Dettol brand being implemented mostly as contact programmes with new mothers and children across the country.

Idika's views were contained in a presentation titled, 'Dettol's Contribution to Health and Hygiene in its 50 years in Nigeria', made during the scientific session at the just-ended 54th Annual General Conference and Delegates' Meeting of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), in Benin City, Edo State.

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