The government is putting its best efforts to achieve food security as well as nutritional security for all. National Food and Nutrition security Policy has been formulated, Action Plan has also been adopted for 2030. Still there is a lack of awareness about nutrition and protein among a large section of population.
Therefore, a nationwide robust campaign is a must where doctors, opinion leaders and model stars will have a major role to play.
The speakers gave this opinion at a seminar on "Right to Protein", held today at the Kumudini Women's Medical College (KWMC), which was jointly organized by the Bangladesh Poultry Industries Central Council (BPICC), KWMC and U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC).
The KWMC Principal, Professor Dr. Md. Abdul Halim said nutritional deficiency is one of the major obstacles to achieve sustainable development goal. The effects of malnutrition are transmitted from one generation to the next. Although Bangladesh has achieved appreciable progress in nutrition index, we need to do a lot more to achieve the national target for 2031 and 2041.
Head of the Department of Medicine, Professor Dr. Mizanur Rahman said- Egg, milk, fish and meat are very important for the body, bone and immunity. A large number of people wrongly believe that eating eggs causes heart diseases and high blood pressure.
Shamsun Nahar Nahid Mohua, chief nutritionist of BIRDEM Hospital, said that due to nutritional deficiency, Bangladesh is losing productivity equivalent to BDT1072 thousand crores every year. One-third of the pre-school children are stunted, more than one-fifth are underweight, and one-tenth are stunted.
President of the Bangladesh Poultry Industries Central Council (BPICC), Shamsul Arefin Khaled, Khabibur Rahman Kanchan, Bangladesh Team Leader of the US Soybean Export Council, the Director of KWMC Pradeep Kumar Roy, Vice-principal Prof. Dr. Niranjan Chandra Basak, Prof. Khandaker Shahnewaj and Dr. Q. M. Enayet Hossain spoke among others in the seminar.
