A gynaecologist with the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu, Dr. Emeka Iloghalu, has said that six months exclusive breast feeding helps in brain development of children.
Iloghalu stated in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Wednesday that exclusive breast feeding promotes a good relationship between mother and child.
He also said exclusive breast feeding helps to build children’s immunity so that the child would not get sick easily.
The medical practitioner who is also a consultant, said that he would soon organise free maternity and new born health education, free immunization, sharing of mosquito nets and other activities.
Iloghalu explained that Nigeria records 157 deaths out of every 1,000 births.
He, however, said that the programme would be strictly for pregnant mothers and children under the age of five years.
He called on well-to-do Nigerians to embark on programmes that would reduce the high rate of maternal mortality instead of waiting for government to do everything. (NAN)
