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Disclosure: The National Board of Health in pill roars - has bought the wrong iodine tablets for infants | BT Politik - www.bt.dk Newborns are the group that needs iodine tablets the most in the event of a nuclear accident. Therefore, newborns and pregnant women are the primary target group when purchasing iodine tablets. Despite this, the National Board of Health has bought the wrong type of tablets for infants. It can B.T. reveal on the basis of an access to documents in the purchase of two million iodine tablets. Conservative health spokesman Per Larsen calls the purchase 'unfortunate'. "One can wonder that everything can apparently go wrong," he says. B.T. has in recent days been able to tell how the National Board of Health spoke untruths when they publicly denied that the large order for iodine tablets had anything to do with the war in Ukraine. Internal emails documented that the war was the reason for the purchase to be made. A fact the National Board of Health subsequently admitted to B.T. after standing steeply on the opposite for almost a month. Now it also turns out that the National Board of Health made a mistake while purchasing the many iodine tablets. When iodine is ingested, it is absorbed into the thyroid gland. This prevents any radioactive iodine, which may be associated with a nuclear incident, from being absorbed. This also reduces the risk of thyroid cancer. In the case of nuclear discharges, newborns aged 0-1 months must have a quarter of an iodine tablet, and the Danish Health and Medicines Authority is therefore recommended to buy tablets with a so-called cross shard, so that the pills can be divided into four. But the agency instead buys tablets with a single split notch, that is, it is difficult to divide them into four. It appears from an email dated 22 April from a special consultant in the National Board of Health to Chief Consultant in the Unit for Radiation Protection Kresten Breddam. 'The tablets we get produced are divided so that they can be divided into two, but not four. It will therefore be difficult to administer a ¼ tablet. Will it be possible to give infants (0-1 month) half a tablet ?, 'the consultant asks. This is rejected by Kresten Breddam, who calls it unfortunate and points out that this is precisely why there was a recommendation to buy tablets that can be divided into four. 'In parentheses, it is this target group that is most important, so it would be quite unfortunate if it is precisely this target group that ends up being the most difficult to manage,' he replies. The purchase must therefore be said to be 'quite unfortunate', because the National Board of Health confirms to B.T. that they have purchased job tablets that can only be divided into two. The National Board of Health subsequently asks Lars Thorbjørn Jensen, chief physician at the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Herlev Hospital, for advice on whether it will be possible to divide the tablets with a knife and crush the contents so that it can be given to newborns. 'If there - by mistake? - if iodine tablets have been purchased that cannot be divided into four, but only into two, then it is a bit unfortunate, but then you (parents of infants, ed.) Have to divide half the tablet with a knife, 'writes Lars Thorbjørn Jensen. In the same email, he points out that the iodine tablets must be divisible by four, as this is what the WHO recommends. The purchase also arouses the wonder of health spokesman for the Danish People's Party Jens-Henrik Thulesen Dahl. "It sounds to me as if things have gone a little too fast." The National Board of Health explains to B.T. that it has not been possible to buy tablets with cross shavings where you have approached. »Iodine tablets are not available over the counter in Denmark. The National Board of Health has therefore entered into agreements with two production pharmacists to manufacture iodine tablets. The iodine tablets are purchased with single-split notches (ie they can be divided into two), as the two pharmacies do not produce tablets with cross-notches (for four), «says Tina Gustavsen, press manager at the Danish Health and Medicines Authority. From the same answer, it appears that this is the explanation for the fact that tablets have been purchased, which are more difficult to give to newborns. »Regarding Infants: We bought the tablets it was possible to buy. The National Board of Health has not yet established a distribution plan for the iodine tablets. Including handing over to special target groups, "she writes. SPORT International Star Wars day People shout Save 40 percent charge See Transfer window LIVE Media Berlingske Berlingske Media A / S Pilestræde 34 DK-1147 Copenhagen KTlf. +45 33 75 75 33 CVR.no .: 29 20 73 13