PRIMARY HEALTH CARE DIRECTOR CHARGES STAKEHOLDERS TO CREATE MORE AWARENESS ON NUTRITIONVALUES

By: Reginald Uhegbu.

Stakeholders in Nutrition have been charged with creating more awareness about nutrition issues to prevent illnesses resulting from inadequate or a lack of nutrition information.

The Acting Executive Secretary of the Federal Capital Territory Primary Health Care Board, Dr Ruqqaya Wamako, made the charge while speaking at the 4-day stakeholders’ engagement workshop for adaptation of the FCT social behavioural change strategy on nutrition.

Dr Wamako added that the lack of adequate information on nutrition has led to a series of illnesses like hypertension, obesity, stunted growth, and acute malnutrition, which she said, has negatively affected the socio-economic well-being of Nigerians

This lack of nutrition knowledge, she continued, cuts across all strata of society, irrespective of social or economic status. She therefore called on nutrition stakeholders to further hasten their awareness creation strategy to help mitigate against nutrition preventable diseases.

The Acting Executive Secretary pledged the FCT Primary Health Care Board’s determination to collaborate with stakeholders and development partners in ensuring that FCT citizens’ social and behavioural attitude on nutrition is improved.

The 4-day workshop, which drew participants from various sectors, as nutrition is a multisectoral issue, was aimed at adapting and domesticating the FCT social behavioural change strategy on nutrition.