Doctors and Public Health Workers Urge Ban on Iodine-Deficient Salt Sales

Jhapa. Doctors and public health workers have expressed serious concern over the increasing risk of public health problems caused by iodine deficiency in Nepal and have drawn the government's attention to immediately ban the sale and distribution of iodine-deficient salt.

They have expressed concern over the open sale and distribution of iodine-deficient Indian salt in 'supermarkets' and grocery stores in Nepal due to the open border with India, and have urged all three levels of government to monitor the market and confiscate such salt that harms the health of general consumers.