A million deaths a year can be prevented if everyone starts routinely washing their hands says a study published in the journal The Lancet. Poor hand hygiene is one of the major causes behind many common infections like cold and flu diarrhoea and dangerous ones like sepsis hepatitis A etc. So maintaining hand hygiene by washing your hands regularly is the key to infection prevention and bringing down the death toll of infection-related deaths. World Hand Hygiene Day is celebrated every year on 5th May with the intention of infection prevention and control and encouraging more people to keep their