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World Breastfeeding Week Report

As part of activities to mark this year's World Breastfeeding Week, the Chief Medical Director of Abia State University Teaching Hospital (ABSUTH) Aba, Prof. Ijeoma Nduka, has admonished mothers on the importance of starting out their newborn babies on breast milk.


Addressing nursing mothers and other newly delivered mothers who attended the Teaching Hospital's Infant Welfare and Antenatal Clinic on Tuesday, the professor of Public Health and Community Medicine described as exceptional and unquantifiable, the health benefits of Breastfeeding. 



She told the mothers to religiously adhere to the World Health Organization's stipulation of ensuring that their newborn babies received all the benefits accruable from their God-given endowment, insisting that no other man-made alternatives possessed similar attributes.

She also enjoined fathers to fully support their wives in this effort. According to her, every partner had an important role to play, alongside healthcare providers, to ensure that nursing mothers strictly adhered to Breastfeeding protocols.

The Chief Medical Director reassured the mothers, particularly all the newly delivered mothers present at the Teaching Hospital's Obstetrics Ward as well as the Antenatal Clinic of her administration's preparedness to support them at all times. 


To mark the World Breastfeeding Week in the Teaching Hospital, about six newly delivered mothers who were yet to be discharged from the Hospital had their bills slashed by 50%. All the women including those present at the ANC Clinic were also presented with free insecticide-treated bed nets, courtesy of the Teaching Hospital management

in support of their adequate health against malaria as they hold on the mantra of breast feeding..

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