By Sani Idris
The NorthWest Director of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration (NAFDAC), Mrs Josephine Dayilim, has urged nursing mothers to embrace exclusive breastfeeding as a way of improving the health status of their newborn babies.
Dayilim, represented by Mrs Rahila Maishanu made the call on Thursday at a one-day workshop on the ban on the advertising of breast milk substitutes in Kaduna.
The workshop was organised by Carelink Resource Foundation in conjunction with NAFDAC.
Dayilim noted the need for stakeholders to educate nursing mothers to maintain exclusive breastfeeding and the dangers involved in using breastmilk substitutes on their newborn babies.
Also, Mrs Rahila Maishanu, the NAFDAC Desk Officer in charge of breastmilk substitutes in Kaduna, noted that there is a code that expressly baned the inappropriate marketing and advertising of breastmilk subtitute.
She added that the code also baned the promotion of such products.
Maishanu called on the stakeholders to equally adhere strictly to the code, while urging them to step down the initiative to their various communities.
She appreciated their effort towards sensitising the public on the importance of embracing exclusive breastfeeding.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the participants at the workshop cut across various organisations such as NURTW, traditional leaders, health workers, among others .
The participants promised to adhere to the code and implement it in their respective domains.(NAN)(www.nannews.ng)
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