Handwashing can cut infections by 50%, but most people still don’t do it properly

It's the health habit everyone thinks they already have. Handwashing. You do it after the bathroom, before a meal, maybe after a sneeze. But according to Dr Deepesh Agrawal, Consultant Physician and Head of Critical Care Medicine at Saifee Hospital, Mumbai, most people are doing it wrong and that gap between the habit we think we have and the one that actually works is costing us more than we realise."Handwashing is one of the simplest and most effective measures to prevent the spread of infecti