As part of efforts to promote exclusive breastfeeding and boost child survival, the Chairman, the House Committee on Health of the Bauchi State House of Assembly is to enact a law that will increase maternity leave to six months from the present 3 months in order to enable lactating mothers enough time to Exclusively breastfeed their babies in line with infant health requirements.
The assertion was made by the Chairman, House Committee on Health, Honourable Lawal Dauda while speaking in Azare on Wednesday, at a Media Dialogue organized by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Bauchi Field Office to commemorate the 2023 annual World Breastfeeding Week (WBW).
Lawal Dauda, who is representing Sade Constituency, said that the proposed law if enacted, would promote best breastfeeding practices and save the lives of children under the age of five.
According to him, there have been agitations by stakeholders and international partners to extend maternity leave to support the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding and healthy children in the state.
The lawmaker said, “We also had a brainstorming meeting with key stakeholders including donor partners on enabling breastfeeding for working mothers at the workplaces across the state.”
“As members of the House of Assembly representing our constituents, we will ensure that there are improved breastfeeding practices that have the potential to save the lives of many children under five years,” he said.
He added that” At a recent plenary session after the workshop, the House reviewed the need to extend the current maternity from three months to Six months.”
” The request by Her Excellency, the First Lady of Bauchi State, was to make it to be six months,.The Assembly members are committed to ensuring that we pass that law,” he added.
According to him, “I assure you that since the First Lady is in the picture of what transpired there, she will encourage her husband to implement that law God willing.
Our responsibility is to pass a law and I assure you that law will be history and Bauchi will be the first in the North East to pass that law”
“We are going to engage in a public hearing before we pass that law. We will engage the Heads of ministries and agencies, traditional rulers and the traditional rulers so that we discuss with them since we are representing them” he said.
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