What breastfeeding can do for 800,000 Nigerian children

According to a child health expert, six months of exclusive breast-feeding of a baby can save about 800,000 children under 5 years of age from childhood killer diseases.

At a two-day training for media champions, organised by the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, in collaboration with Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health (PACFaH,) n Kaduna, David Akpotor revealed that saving 800,000 through breastfeeding would equal a 12% drop in child mortality in the country.

Akpotor explained that the training, which was attended by 15 media organisations, was to advocate and demand accountability in child and family health issues across PACFaH focal states of Bauchi, Sokoto, Kano, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Lagos, Oyo and Abuja.

He also said that the most recent Nigerian Demographic Health Survey, NDHS, revealed that 128 children, in every 1,000 birth, die before they clock age 5 while explaining that pneumonia and diarrhoea accounts for 14 percent and nine percent of infant deaths in the country.

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