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| Week Celebrations at 166 Military Hospital "Kangaroo Mother Care" steals show during World Breast Feeding | | | Sports Reporter
JAMMU, Aug 1: The week long World Breast Feeding Week started at 166 Military Hospital with a great enthusiasm and overwhelmed participations by admitted mothers in family ward and from the areas at Hospital premises at Satwari Cantt, on Thursday.
The programme was inaugurated by Rashmi Hooda, Regional AWWA President White Knight Corps. She was accompanied by Brig Pawan Kapoor, VSM, Brig Med HQ Knight Corps. On her arrival she was received by Sushma Harjai, Convener Family Welfare Centre of 166 Military Hospital and Brig Man Mohan Harjai, Commandant, 166 MH.
The celebrations of World breast feeding week 2013 were started at 166 MH, Satwari Cantt Jammu with a theme of this year, given by World Alliance on Breast Feeding Action (WABA), "Breast feeding support - close to mothers".
The program which will carry on the whole week from 01-07 Aug was kick started by the celebrations on 01 Aug which included a poster competition and video on promotion of breast feeding. This was followed by a presentation on breast feeding benefits by the pediatrician of the hospital. A quiz was organized which saw an enthusiastic participation of the ladies and the mothers.
The poster competition which was organized on the theme of breast feeding saw an overwhelming response from the admitted mothers and the young nursing officers of the hospital. The posters were judged by the chief guest of the function Rashmi Hooda, who also gave away the prizes for the best 3 posters. She also released the immunization card of the hospital on this occasion.
166 Military hospital is a unique service hospital with the maximum number of deliveries recorded annually, this gives the opportunity to promote the benefits of breast feeding practices and make this campaign reach to the maximum clientele. The hospital under the able and revered command of Brig Man Mohan Harjai has been actively involved in promoting health awareness by conducting such campaigns regularly despite the hospital being considered as one of the busiest hospital in the zone.
Chief Guest of the function Rashmi Hooda also visited the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) of the hospital and appreciated the quality care provided to the children. She was briefed by Col Shashi Bhushan, HOD (Pediatrics) about the KMC (Kangaroo Mother Care) which is being carried out for the low birth weight babies and the fantastic results obtained out of it. The two essential components of KMC are the exclusive breast feeding and skin to skin contact. Two babies of birth weight less than one Kg presently admitted were the shining examples of the good practices being followed in the NICU and the quality care provided by the hospital. She interacted with the mothers and appreciated their patience and motivation levels about exclusive breast feeding to their newborns.
Breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to ensure child health and survival. Adequate breastfeeding counseling and support are essential for mothers and families to initiate and maintain optimal breastfeeding practices. Breastfeeding is the normal way of providing young infants with the nutrients they need for healthy growth and development. As highlighted by Who if every child was breastfed within an hour of birth, given only breast milk for their first six months of life, and continued breastfeeding up to the age of two years, about 220 000 child lives would be saved every year. Brig Harjai added that according to National Family Health Survey exclusively breast fed infants at 4 months of age was 37% and at 6 months of age was 19% only. Only 16% mother initiate breast feeding within the desired one hour after birth, 37% do by the end of the first day, 63% women discard colostrum due to lack of knowledge (first milk excretion after birth is called colostrum). |
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