Thirty health workers are undergoing an infant and child feeding training at golden guest house. The training which begun on Monday called the health workers from Turkana north, south, west, Loima, east and central district emphasizes on feeding of young child from zero to twenty four months.
The training which is organized by world vision Kenya and facilitated by ministry of health was aimed at raising the levels of breast feeding in turkana. According to the facilitator from provincial medical office Mrs. Priscilla koime, said that the level of breast feeding in Kenya is very low.
She said that initially breast feeding used to be 2.7% having conducted several trainings the levels increased to around 5% and they are hoping to raise it further to about 8%.Mrs. koime continued to say that they deeply depend on the trained health workers who will deliver the required information to the communities.
Mrs. koime said that their expectations are to empower the community health workers to equip them with skills and competence of which they are going to teach mothers and care-takers on infant and young child feeding practices.
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