SANITATION PRACTICES AND IMPLICATION ON STUDENTS’ HEALTH (A CASE STUDY OF ABDU GUSAU POLYTECHNIC HOSTELS)

Sanitation practice implication on student’s health in Male and Female Hostel in Abdu Gusau Polytechnic, Talata Marafa, Zamfara State has been the desire of every right thinking for good health of both the students and lecturers in the above school. The purposes of this study is to investigate the causes of poor sanitation practices on students health in Talata Mafara, Abdu Gusau Polytechnic, the dangers and the strategies which could be employ to curb poor sanitation in Talata Mafara, Abdu Gusau Polytechnic. One hundred questionnaires were administered to the respondents, which was correctly answered by the respondents without mistakes five research question, each focusing on the formulated. A descriptive statistic using mean was adopted for data analysis. Finding from their study showed that, regular clean up exercise, formulating the environment, illiteracy constitutes the problems of poor sanitation practices. The study was concluded with the recommendation which includes that the school management should employ labourers, make provision for facilities, and formulate the environment. The researchers believed that if all these are put in place, it will enhance sanitation practices in the school, thereby improving student’s health.