Breastfeeding can reduce child mortality rate: Speakers

Speakers at a workshop have stressed the need for breastfeeding for reducing the child mortality rate to achieve the millennium development goal (MDG) by 2015. They said mortality rate of the children could be reduced to a great extent if new born babies are brought under breastfeeding within an hour. They were speaking at a daylong workshop styled ‘Divisional Workshop on Breast Milk Substitute (BMS) Act-2013’ organised by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) and four other organisations including Bangladesh Breastfeeding Foundation (BBF) at the School Health Clinic in Khulna city. The speakers also underscored the need for providing adequate healthcare to all the pregnant mothers during both pre and post delivery period to reduce mortality rate of mothers, according to a news agency.