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Gov’t Orders Kenyan Employers to Set Up Breastfeeding Stations for Lactating Workers

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Gov't Orders Kenyan Employers to Set Up Breastfeeding Stations for Lactating Workers

The government wants all employers in the country to set up breastfeeding stations to allow lactating mothers feed their babies at work places.

Health Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki has said that all employers must set up the stations as required by the Health Act that was enacted last year. The minister further said the nursing workers must also be given breaks to feed their babies.
 
“I also call upon all employers and stakeholders to prioritize establishment of lactation stations in their workplace and to provide for breaks for nursing employees as is within the law,” said CS Kariuki when she launched the International Breastfeeding Week in Kenya at Pumwani Maternity Hospital.

To lead from the front, Kariuki ordered for immediate setting up of a lactation station at the Health Ministry headquarters in Nairobi.

“As the government, we will continue to invest in free maternity programme because so far through this initiative, we have settled bills of over one million mothers with maternity bills,” she said.

“No mother or child should die because of our being careless and failing to invest in the most obvious places. We have to invest in equipment, infrastructure, human resource and drugs in this country.”

 

7 COMMENTS

  1. Nonsense … will the damn…
    Nonsense … will the damn babies come to work as well so that they can nyonya at the station.

  2. Jameni tuko wapi? Yuropa? …
    Jameni tuko wapi? Yuropa? Tangu utotoni mwangu, nimewaona akina mama wakiwanyonyesha watoto wao maziwa bila mtu yeyote kufikiria wazo lolote bovu!

    Katika mila za Yuropa, mwanamke haruhusiwi kunyonyesha mtoto maziwa hadharani! Lakini hiyo ndiyo mila yao.

    Nawaombeni msiwatese akina mama na watoto wao wachanga huku mkitumia mila za kigeni. Mama ana haki kumyonyesha mwanawe maziwa mahali popote na pia wakati wowote katika nchi ya kenya.

    • @ Imara, I have to agree…
      @ Imara, I have to agree with you there. Same here, I grew up seeing mothers breast feed their babies without any men around looking at it sexually.In fact, agood number of african tribes are known to not worry about being bare chested.check the Himba tribe from Namibia.
      Yes, this sexualization of breats,in my opinion is purely western ideology.
      If we can learn to ape the western,we can also unlean.And then embrace our african ways.
      Like I always say, unless it intefers with the operation of SCIENCE.
      Do we ever see Mzungu aping african way of life,or for that matter taking african names? Let’s have pride in what is ours,unless its harmful.No harm in breast feeding in the open,that I can see.

  3. Does this woman/mbule MPs…
    Does this woman/mbule MPs know that these additional operation costs to companies are passed to hungry & bongolala Kenyans?Why not order the doubling of doctors/medical personnel and medicine in Pumwani/Nairobi,Kiambu,Nyeri hospitals and other places where treatment is a luxury in Kenya?How come Sicily is still in office after presiding over the NYS II looting?

  4. Just curious! Are babies now…
    Just curious! Are babies now accompanying mums to work? I’m confused.

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