Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has emphasised breastfeeding and homemade foods for infants at mothers' workplaces.
Sheikh Hasina said: “There is no alternative to breastfeeding for the normal growth of children as it contains essential nutrients for the infants and helps increase resistance power.
For this reason the government ordered to introduce breastfeeding corners in government and non-government offices."
The prime minister highlighted importance of breastfeeding in a message on the eve of the World Breastfeeding Week-2015 that begins on Saturday, BSS reports.
This year the theme of this week is, 'Breastfeeding and Work: Let's Make It Work'.
"If a mother can feed her infant at workplace her baby would be healthy and the mother will also be tension-free and more sincere to her work," she added.
The premier said that the government is working relentlessly for the last six years to increase the habit of breastfeeding and reach healthcare services for mothers and children to the doorsteps through Community Clinics and Upazila Health Comlexes.
She urged the non-government organizations, banks, insurance companies, factories, shopping malls, professional bodies, trade unions and other human rights organizations to create awareness about the issue and to help mothers feed their infants at working places.
