Kenyan women want improved conditions at work so they can breastfeed their children
Kenyan women are calling on their employers to improve conditions at work so that they can continue to breastfeed their children.
The national campaign is aimed at encouraging nursing employees to keep on breastfeeding their babies after returning to work, malady because even in the wake of a national campaign to encourage breastfeeding, some women are having to put up with unhygienic conditions at work when expressing and storing milk.
Public Health minister Beth Mugo expressed concern that some working mothers are expressing milk in restrooms because of a lack of a more appropriate environment. “The mothers lack a hygienic environment [in which] to express their milk with the majority doing so in the toilets,” Mrs Mugo said in a statement.
Some babies had developed lowered immunity because they had been introduced to other foods than breast milk before they were six months old, Mrs Mugo added. She said that employers should set up workplace creches to allow women to breastfeed their babies properly while at work.
Read the full story on AllAfrica.com.