A two-day osteoporosis awareness program ended at Rajshahi University (RU) on Monday with a call to create awareness among common people about the disease, reports BSS.
“Osteoporosis is now adjudged as a silent killer. So, massive awareness is needed about the disease which can lead to increased risk of bone fracture at older age,” speakers of the program said.
Rajshahi University Teachers Association (RUTA) arranged the program at Senate Building of the university aimed at disseminating knowledge and updates on how to avoid the risk of the disease.
Speaking on the occasion as chief guest RU vice-chancellor Prof Abdus Sobhan blamed adulterated, substandard and forged powder milks for calcium deficit of the children which leads to their low bone mass and deterioration of bone tissue.
Pro-vice chancellors of the university Prof Ananda Kumar Shaha and Prof Chowdhury Jakaria and Students Adviser Prof Laila Arjuman Banu and RUTA President Prof. Saiful Islam Faruqui also spoke on the occasion.
Prof. Sobhan called for immediate withdrawal of those milk powders from the market so that people can meet up their calcium deficit by taking only the genuine one.
Dr Sabiha Sultana, Medical Affairs Senior Executive in Bangladesh of New Zealand Dairy presented a keynote paper in which she illustrated the risk factors along with preventive measures of osteoporosis.
People suffering from osteoporosis have an increased risk of bone fracture. Statistically fracture occurs in every one in three women and one in five men over the age of 50 years due to osteoporosis, she said. Dr Sabiha mentioned in absence of adequate calcium, bone formation become insufficient and bone remodeling inadequate.
In four sessions of the two-day program, RUTA members and their family members were brought under bone scanning. Subsequently, based on the scanning report they were given prescription by the attending nutritionists.