Dr. Mohamed Fawzy Al-Souda, President of General Authority for Hospitals and Educational Institutes The National Institute of Nutrition is considered a pioneering medical edifice of the authority, as it was established in 1955 as the first medical unit specialized in maternal and child health. Challenges and reduce the practice of improper feeding that may interfere with optimal breastfeeding.
Dr. added. Fawzy stressed the importance of finding innovative solutions to ensure uninterrupted access to these basic services and the continued access of mothers to optimal advice by increasing interest in breastfeeding programs, and improving, monitoring and implementing policies that ensure training of health care workers, including doctors and nurses, to provide optimal advice to mothers and the entire family, And the importance of continuing to make counseling available as part of routine health and nutrition services that are easily accessible at any time.
Wael Al Darandali, Vice President of the Authority for Technical Affairs, added that the World Breastfeeding Week this year bears the slogan “Breastfeeding.. Let’s educate and learn.” Al Shamel, the Egyptian Foundation for Child Health and Nutrition, the Egyptian Association of Breastfeeding Consultants, the National Council for Women, and a distinguished international participation from the World Food Program (WFP) and UNICEF.
Jihan Fouad, Dean of the National Institute of Nutrition, stated that the activities will be launched from the institute, for all specialists in the field of pediatrics, family, women and obstetrics in the basics of breastfeeding and related problems, and how to correct common misinformation about breastfeeding, in order to raise awareness of its importance among medical workers who It provides health services for mothers and children, as the activities start on Sunday, 28/8/2022 in the main conference hall of the institute, then the activities will tour all governorates of the Republic through the use of more than one hundred consultants and professors in the field of breastfeeding. The activities will also tour 40 hospitals, including affiliated hospitals. The Ministry of Health and university hospitals in addition to social and sports clubs and places belonging to the National Council for Women, where the activities last for a month and a half, and added Dr. Jihan Fouad said that the activities come to raise awareness of health service providers about how to treat the problems facing the child and the mother, and it is known that there is a decrease in the levels of breastfeeding at 6 months at 13%, according to the statistics of the previous Egyptian demographic research.