Nutritionists Advocate Education, Counseling to Fight Infant Mortality


In an offer to diminish Nigeria’s high newborn child death rate, specialists have called for accentuation to be set on training and directing on the significance of sustenance for youngsters, beginning with selective bosom sustaining.

They said the majority of the passings amid early stages were connected to poor sustenance, thus the requirement for Nigerians to be educated on the significance of nourishment for their newborn children and kids.

The specialists talked as of late, amid a ‘Symposium and Convocation of Post Graduate Program in Pediatric Nutrition’, an instructive activity upheld by Nestle Nutrition Institute, in relationship with Boston University School of Medicine and Medinscribe, in Lagos.

Source : ThisDay