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Women urge employers to provide nurseries at work
Public Health minister Beth Mugo has expressed concern that some working mothers are expressing milk to breastfeed their children in unclean environments. FILE
Posted Wednesday, September 8 2010 at 12:14
“This also translates to lower health costs, employee satisfaction and morale, and a better image for the company,” the minister said.
Over one-third of child deaths are due to under-nutrition mostly from increased severity of disease and those who survive have a high risk of cognitive development.
Mrs Mugo lauded the initiative adding it would scale up interventions towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal number one aimed at halving child mortality deaths in the next five years.
She expressed concern that 68 per cent of Kenyan infants are exposed daily to an increased risk of disease.
Also present at the function was Unicef Kenya representative Ms Olivia Yambi and Ms Terry Wefwafwa, head Division of Nutrition at the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation.
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