53% of Iranian babies are fed without breast milk

According to the Fars news agency’s health department, Mohammad Reza Sayini, at the World Breastfeeding Week commemoration ceremony held at the Razi Conference Center of Iran University of Medical Sciences, added: According to national research, exclusive breastfeeding in the country reached 44 in 1979. It was 1%, which reached 53.1% in 2009 and 47.4% in 2016.

He announced that the urban percentage of exclusive breastfeeding in 2016 was 45.9 and the rural percentage of exclusive breastfeeding was 50.9 and he said: We should be able to increase this percentage to 70 with interventions and programs.

The Director General of Population, Family and School Health Office of the Ministry of Health stated: Healthy child-friendly hospitals in the country have increased from 11 hospitals in 1970 to 568 hospitals in 1400.

Saini added: If all 10 necessary steps are taken to transform a hospital into a healthy child-friendly hospital, based on evaluations, 85% of the country’s hospitals can be converted into a healthy child-friendly hospital.

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