Employers urged to set up breastfeeding stations

Ministries have been urged to come up with policies that encourage breastfeeding mothers to do so for six months without interruption.

Speaking during a workshop on breastfeeding and infant nutrition in Nairobi by Nestle, Seme MP James Nyikal, also a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Health, said exclusive breastfeeding is the best nutrition for a baby.

He said employers should set up lactation stations at the work place and that the Ministry of Health should set up such stations in all public health facilities.

“The law requires that women who have delivered take a three-month leave to be with their children. We should see this happen even with those in the informal sector,” said Dr Nyikal, a paeditrician by training.

- Jeckonia Otieno