Luanda –The Health Ministry (Minsa) intends to expand human milk banks in the country's health centers to ensure that babies benefit from this resource and grow up healthy.
The expansion of human milk banks is aimed, among other things, at preventing gastrointestinal, urinary and respiratory infections in infants, as well as protecting against allergies, reducing the incidence of caries and improving nutrition.
According to the Minister for Social Action, Family and the Promotion of Women, Ana Paula de Sacramento Neto, highlighted the Human Milk Bank importance in children's cognitive growth.
"With the Human Milk Bank it is possible to offer those children whose mothers are unable to give their babies breastfeeding, so that they have cognitive growth, a better healthy life and are more active," the minister said.
The minister praised the BAI bank for supporting the project, in favor of improving the quality of life of the little ones.
Antero de Pina, UNICEF representative in Angola, expressed the institution's willingness to continue to support the Ministry of Health's program to protect children and ensure that breastfeeding is the first and exclusive food for up to six months.
"We're going to continue to encourage and promote breastfeeding right from prenatal care, because I believe that investing in breastfeeding only brings benefits. We therefore need to do our best to reach the targets set worldwide and invest in children so that they have a promising present and future," Pina said.
Run under the slogan "Support breastfeeding in all situations", the event was marked by training activities for journalists, talks in churches on the importance of breastfeeding, among other activities.AB/MCN/DAN/AMP
