BREAST FEEDING WEEK CELEBRATION 2023
World Breastfeeding Week was held in the first week of August every year, supported by WHO, UNICEF and many Ministries of Health and civil society partners. This year?s theme is to focus on breastfeeding and work, providing a strategic opportunity to advocate for essential maternity rights that support breastfeeding ? maternity leave for a minimum of 18 weeks, ideally more than 6 months, and workplace accommodations after this point. These are urgent issues for ensuring women can breastfeed as long as they wish to do so: more than half a billion working women are not given basic maternity provisions; many more find themselves unsupported when they go back to work. The theme of breast feeding week of 2023 is ?ENABLING BREAST FEEDING MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOR WORKING PARENTS?. Motherhood is a joyous and fulfilling journey, but it also presents various challenges, particularly in ensuring the well-being of both the baby and the mother. On 7th August 2023 program was conducted at PKDIMS reception for valedictory function inaugural speech was delivered by DR. RC. Krishnakumar Director and prize distribution given of quiz and poster making winner students, felicitation as done by DR. Jubina Beny. A.T, Professor And Head of Community Medicine, DR. (Lt. Col) H. Valson, Profesor & Department of Obstetrics and gynecology, DR S.N. Deepa Professor and department of pediatrics, Mrs. Aswani. B , Assistant Professor, Nehru College of Nursing. Health talk as given by was Dr. Vidhya sankari, neonatologist, PKDIMS. flash mob, was done by 4th years All together the program able to provide health education for 250-300 mothers and was finished as very successful one.
