By Pius Awunah
The Acting Executive Secretary (ES) of the Federal Capital Territory Primary Health Care Board, Dr. Ruqqaya Wamako has called on stakeholders to create more awareness on nutritional issues to prevent illnesses resulting from inadequate or a lack of information on nutrition.
The acting ES made the charge recently at the 4-day stakeholders’ engagement workshop for the adaptation of the FCT social behavioural change strategy on nutrition.
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 has negatively affected the socio-economic well-being of Nigerians
The lack of nutrition knowledge, she noted,cuts across all strata of the society, irrespective of social or economic status.
The Primary Health Scribe,therefore, called on nutrition stakeholders to hasten their awareness creation strategy to help mitigate against nutrition preventable diseases.
She pledged the FCT Primary Health Care Board’s determination to collaborating with stakeholders and development partners to ensure that FCT citizens’ social and behavioural attitudes on nutrition were improved.
The 4-day workshop, which drew participants from various sectors, aimed at adapting and domesticating the FCT social behavioural change strategy on nutrition.
