SOCIALIZATION OF PROPER HAND WASHING ACCORDING TO WHO RECCOMENDATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN CIMAHI CITY ORPHANAGE
Elly Noer R. Fransiska Ambarukmi P, Een Taryana, Handoko Rusiana Iskandar, M.Reza Hidayat

FK dan FT Unjani

Abstract

Since the end of 2019, Corona Virus (COVID-19) disease began to be known as an infectious disease and spread rapidly across continents. In March 2020, WHO announced the Global Pandemic Covid-19, then Indonesia through the Presidential Decree No. 11 of 2020 established the Corona Virus Disease Public Health Emergency 2019. The disease can hit all human organs, especially respiratory tract. The symptoms of Covid-19 vary greatly, ranging from non-symptomatic to symptoms that can lead to death. The orphanage is one of the institutions that performs the functions of families and communities in the development and personality of children to adolescents. Institute of Research and Community Service, Universitas Jenderal Achmad Yani (LPPM UNJANI), has the task of facilitating research activities and community service. In order to develop sensitivity and concern to the paradigm of life, LPPM UNJANI involving the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering held community service activities in the form of teaching and training of proper hand washing using soap, in accordance with WHO recommendations, in addition to helping the provision of hand washing facilities, so that it is expected to help break the chain of transmission of COVID-19. The results of this community service obtained the sufficient pre test scores, and good post test scores. By providing training to orphanage children, it is expected to make knowledge and understanding of proper hand washing in accordance with WHO recommendations during the pandemic, especially to children living in orphanages, thus helping to break the chain of infection transmission.

Keywords: Handwashing, WHO, Covid-19, Orphanages

Topic: Clinical Practice in Pandemic Era