The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, is advocating for legislation to make breastfeeding mothers have 6 months of compulsory maternity leave, to enable them to exclusively breastfeed children between up to 6 months old.
The UNICEF Nutrition Manager, Kano Field Office, Elhadji Diop made the appeal to the Katsina State government during the launch of the year 2022 Breastfeeding Week
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He said the result of the recent report by the Multi-Indicator Cluster Survey, MICS, showed only 2 out of 10 newborns in Katsina are exclusively breastfed.
Editor Oloyede Oworu
