Camagüey will join the celebration of World Breastfeeding Week

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Camagüey, July 28.- During the first days of the month August Camagüey will join the celebration of World Breastfeeding Week, with a group of educational activities with the participation of the community to promote and support this act of responsible love. filial.

This was reported by Dr. Ivette Prince, Head of the Maternal and Child Care Program (PAMI) at the Provincial Directorate of Public Health, who said that although the actions would be strengthened from August 1 to 7, the Truth is that Throughout the year, we work with pregnant women and their families so that they become aware of the need and the importance of badfeeding.

However, said the specialist, currently on the territory of Camagüey, abandoning this type of diet before six months of the baby's life is a health problem because a considerable number of women suspend it before the recommended time Ivette Prince, about the stage of the year where we live, which promotes the occurrence of acute diarrheal diseases, insists on the importance of badfeeding children less than a year to avoid the onset of symptoms badociated with these diseases.

According to the director of PAMI in Camagüey, women increasingly have to choose badfeeding as an exclusive food for newborns for at least the first six months of life. , as a guarantee for better health. (Mariela Peña Segu / Radio Cadena Agramonte) (Photo: Archivo)