| Azlan Othman |
RAJA Isteri Pengiran Anak Saleha (RIPAS) Hospital yesterday distributed nursing covers to several hospitals in conjunction with World Breastfeeding Week 2016.
The presentation ceremony was attended by RIPAS Hospital Chief Executive Officer Haji Muhammad Jamal bin Haji Tersad, medical superintendents and senior officials from the RIPAS Hospital.
Chief Executive Officer of RIPAS also handed over nursing covers to representatives of the Belait, Tutong and Temburong hospitals and also to mothers who are being treated at the Women and Children Centre.
This activity is one of the initiatives prove the Ministry of Health is committed to upholding and supporting the welfare and health affairs of infants and children through breastfeeding.
Haji Muhammad Jamal bin Haji Tersad presenting nursing covers to a Matron Wee Oi Jock, a Nursing Officer as a representative from Suri Seri Begawan Hospital
Dr Hajah Rohayati binti Haji Mohd Taib, Paediatric Consultant at RIPAS Hospital, handing over a nurs-ing cover to a mother
Prof Madya Dr Hajah Roselina binti Dato Paduka Haji Yaakub, Obstetric and Gynaecology Consultant, presenting a nursing cover to a mother. – PHOTOS: RIPAS HOSPITAL
The distribution of nursing covers hopes to encourage the practice of breastfeeding because it provides comfort and privacy to the mother at any required time.
A nursing cover facilitates feeding infants at any time required either in a closed room or in public area.
RIPAS Hospital also organised various activities throughout the Breastfeeding Week by holding seminars to promote breastfeeding among mothers at the Women and Children Centre, presented by nursing officers and experienced nurses.
Since 1992, World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year on August 1-7.
In Brunei, the celebration of World Breastfeeding Week has been successfully organised since 1999 with the Ministry of Health as the main coordinator.
This year it carries the theme ‘Breastfeeding: A Key to Sustainable Development’.
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