Dr Winfred Ofosu, the Upper East Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has called on married men to support their wives to practise exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months after birth as it will build the immunity of the child and protect it from some diseases.
"If we can have all men and husbands insisting that their newborn babies be given only breast milk for six months, and after that they commence the complementary feeds, we will be able to achieve a lot."
"So we are calling on all men to support their wives to adopt exclusive breastfeeding," Dr Ofosu said in an interview with the media in Bolgatanga, on the sideline of an assessment exercise at the end of a three-year "Mother-Baby Friendly Health Facility Initiative", implemented in the Upper East Region.
