Six months of
exclusive breast-feeding will save 800,000 under five children from
childhood killer diseases, expert has disclosed.
Speaking 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, in Kaduna, the
Programme Officer PSN, Abuja office, David Akpotor, said saving 800,000
through breastfeeding will amount to 12 percent drop in child mortality
in the country.
Akpotor explained
that the training, which was attended by 15 media organisations, was
aimed at advocating and demanding accountability in child and family
health issues across PACFaH focal states of Bauchi, Sokoto, Kano,
Kaduna, Nasarawa, Lagos, Oyo and Abuja.
According to him,
the most recent Nigerian Demographic Health Survey, NDHS, showed that
128 children, in every 1,000 birth, die before their fifth birthday.
He said pneumonia
and diarrhoea accounts for 14 percent and nine percent of under-five
mortality rate in the country, respectively.
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