A food systems and nutrition specialist, Mrs Dolapo Enejoh has advocated for a policy that will tackle malnutrition in the country.
Enejoh explained that “dietary risk factors are estimated to cause 11 million deaths and the loss of 255 million years due to ill-health, disability, or early death, annually”.
She stated this at a virtual workshop organized by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) in collaboration with the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and eHealth Africa, with the theme, ‘Enforcing Workforce Nutrition Compliance for Improved Health and Well-being in the Nigerian Workplace’.
Dr. Barbel Weiligmann, in his presentation on ‘Enforcing Workforce Nutrition Compliance for Improved Health and Well-being in the Nigerian Workplace’, the Global Programme Lead Workforce Nutrition at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), said workforce nutrition is central to employee well-being.
Also speaking, the President of the Nutrition Society of Nigeria and Dean of the College of Food Science and Human Ecology, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB) Professor Wasiu Afolabi, said the public sector lacked workforce nutrition programmes.
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