Organisations in West Pokot county do not have lactation rooms but one is leading the way. Kapenguria County Hospital is the first to set up a lactation room. “We cannot ask mothers to exclusively breastfeed yet as the Ministry of Health we have not helped mothers working in our department,” he says. “We cannot ask mothers to exclusively breastfeed while mothers in the ministry are not doing the same. The survey shows that most work in the home has been left to women, hence, hindering them from exclusively breastfeeding.

Source: The Star December 11, 2020 02:26 UTC