ISLAMABAD:
An awareness campaign on the use of iodised salt was launched in the suburbs of the capital on Tuesday.
The Network for Consumer Protection (TheNetwork) organised sensitisation sessions with women to highlight the benefits of using iodised salt and convinced the participants to use it to avoid various risks caused by iodine deficiency according to a press release.
Participants were made aware of a direct link between consumption of iodised salt and children’s mental development.
Iodine deficiency costs 10 to 15 point loss in IQ level, resulting in retarded growth, low school performance and higher school dropouts,” TheNetwork health experts told the gathering.
The session was interactive and queries related to misconceptions about iodised salt were duly addressed.
Women admitted they were not aware of disorders caused by its deficiency. “Why were we not advised by doctors to use the iodised salt when iodine is so essential for health,” asked a concerned mother at an awareness session in Nau Ghazi in Shah Allah Ditta Union Coucil.
Similar awareness sessions were conducted in Rawat, Sohan, Kirpa, Panj Garan, Women Welfare and development centre, G-7, and G-13 and attended by a large number of housewives, schoolgirls, mothers and elderly women.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 18th, 2014.
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