Mrs Wike Tasks Women On Breast Feeding

Wife of Rivers State Governor, Justice Eberechi Suzeette Nyesom-Wike, has called on Rivers women particularly those from the rural areas to strive towards ensuring breast feeding of their babies.
Justice Wike said six months exclusive breast feeding of children was necessary to bring about healthy baby and family planning.
She said this during the official opening of 2019 Breast Feeding Week in Akinima, Ahoada West Local Government Area.
Represented by the Vice Chairman, Ahoada West Local Government Area, Hon. Ubile Jack, she disclosed that good nutrition and adequate breast feeding were the bedrock of child survival, healthy growth and development.
The Governor’s wife enjoined mothers to essentially observe exclusive breastfeeding of their children as a way of curbing child malnutrition in the country.
She emphasised that through exclusive breast feeding, the issue of child mortality could be reduced to the barest minimum.
“We are here to ensure that the message of breast feeding is carried out to the rural communities, which the whole world is observing including Rivers State.
From the birth to a child’s sixth month, even one year, they are not to be given water, all what they needed to boost their immune system, is the breast milk”.
She said the importance of promoting breast feeding cannot be over- emphasised, saying that the Governor of the State, Nyesom Wike was totally committed to attending to health issues which the children are not left out, enjoining women of Ahoada West to ensure they participated fully in the free exercise.
Meanwhile, the Ahoada West Medical Officer, Dr. Zorraneen Kagbaranen, has described the wife of the Governor, Justice Eberechi Suzzete Nyesom- Wike, as a role model for making 2019 breast feeding most colourful with the distribution of children’s clothes and wrappers to women.
According to him, every child needs adequate breast feeding to stay healthy and strong.