BREASTFEEDING RATES IN KUWAIT FALLEN, ONLY 8% OF NEWBORNS ARE BREASTFED

  • 06/10/2022

Kuwait City: The drop in natural breastfeeding rates in Kuwait highlights the critical need for increased collaboration among various sectors of the country to support the best nutrition available for infants, according to World Health Organization (WHO) Representative Assad Hafeez on Wednesday.


He made these remarks during a speech at United Nations House during a session organised by WHO Country Office in Kuwait in collaboration with Public Authority (PAFN) and Ministry of Health regarding the initiative of appropriate hospitals for children (UN). 

Back in 1991, WHO launched an initiative for infant-friendly hospitals in collaboration with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), aiming to ensure both mothers and children receive the necessary care at the appropriate time before living in a residence-offering mothers and infants care and proper nutrition, he said.

This initiative protects, encourages, and supports natural breastfeeding, which he considers to be extremely important, and it also provides appropriate care and nutrition to infants who do not receive natural breastfeeding, he added.

According to statistics from the National Food Surveillance Report, investing in good nutrition in early childhood has a significant positive impact on people's health, academic achievement, and productivity, according to Ministry of Health Assistant Undersecretary for Special Medical Care Services Dr. Fatma Al-Najjar. 

Dr. Mona Al-Sumaie, Director of Community Nutrition Promotion at PAFN, listed the Kuwait Breastfeeding Promotion's specialties and its critical role in boosting partnerships between the public and private sectors to improve infant and child nutrition in all parts of the country.

Only 8% of newly born babies in Kuwait are breastfed for six months, according to a Ministry of Health official on Wednesday. Dr. Fatma Al-Najjar, an assistant undersecretary at the Ministry of Health, told  that figures from the national nutrition monitoring report revealed that only 8% of infants receive natural feeding for six months in their infancy.

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