The campaign to constantly wash your hands with soap under running water in the wake of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has made the veronica buckets very popular in Ghana.
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The Veronica Bucket which has become one commodity on a very high demand is a plastic container with a tap attached to it. This enables one to thoroughly wash the hands under running water.
The bucket is named after Madam Veronica Bekoe who invented it.
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Veronica Bekoe graduated from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and worked with a medical laboratory and was a head of the National Public Reference Laboratory in Accra.
It was during her time at the laboratory that she invented the veronica bucket.