Health Study: The worst Netherlands, Kosovo third in Europe from cleanliness

Consider the fact that washing hands with soap reduces infant mortality from pneumonia [and other respiratory diseases] for 25 percent and diarrhea [and other intestine diseases] for 50 percent.

In other words, improving the hygiene of the hands is easy, free, and more effective ways to reduce the vitality of small children, Periscope translates.

Wash your hands before you eat, and after you get out of the bathroom. This is the simple message of the Global Hand-washing Day, which for the first time was held in the distant year 2008.

Mainly during this day, places such as Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, and the Philippines are covered with text messages, where basic hygiene [or its absence] is more critical in determining whether a child can survive or not.

Yet, it is not just the developing world that needs cleaner hands. As the following map shows, some countries in Europe also have a problem with the problem of handwashing.

The map shows results from a Gallup survey since 2015, which raised the following question: “Do you wash your hands with soap and water immediately after you exit the toilet?

The cleanest/good ones in this regard are Bosniaks with 96 percent, followed by Turks with 94 percent. Even Kosovo does not fare badly, being with 85 percent of people washing hands, a better percentage than Serbia, which had 83 percent of residents, then from Macedonia 82 percent, Bulgaria only 72 and so on.

As you can see, Muslim countries have higher percentages, perhaps even as a result of “wu”, abdes, Islamic hand washing procedure [and mouth, noses, arms, heads and legs].

But who are the peoples with the worst hand hygiene in Europe, or the most filthy people said in the popular jargon?

The German percentage is 87, then the Finnish is 76, British 75, Irish 74 and Swiss 73.

Without any doubt, however, the world's most dirty country, according to the Gallup survey, was the Netherlands. Half the Dutch residents in this survey have reported not washing their hands after they leave the bathroom. /Periscope