Munaj Gul Muhammad
Carrying heavy school bags are very hazardous for the health of every child. Now the growing numbers of children are back deformities, because of the weight of bags they are carrying to schools. Half all children suffer from back pain by the ages of 12 to 14 and doctors are reporting a rise in causes of spinal abnormalities in pupils. Overloaded school bags that are up to double the size of these carried ten years ago are contributing to the surge.
Moreover, school children every day carry bags which are filled with heavy books, notebooks, sports thing and their lunch. As the health experts are saying that if children carry heavy bags weighing more than 12 KG, they may be affected by some risky diseases, such as back pain, stress, mind weakness, strain of the spine and many more and if they get back pain than they will have it for the next 70 to 80 years, which leads to an enormous physical and emotional cost. In the ages between 12 to 15 years children skeletons are still growing so carrying heavy bags can causes lasting damage in the form of back problem which can be a very lethal disease.
Furthermore, In Pakistan and South Asia countries, children mostly carrying heavy bags and the children who are going to school by foot are affected mostly.
So parents are urged to keep their children safe from these gross diseases and they need to suggest their children not to carry heavy bags and teachers must make a time table that children need not to carry heavy bags every day. Parents and teachers ought to remove unnecessary items in their bags which create a lot of problems for the children.
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