The federal government said yesterday in Abuja that Nigeria has one of the poorest exclusive breastfeeding rates in Africa because many women give their infants water along with breast milk.
The permanent secretary of the federal ministry of health, Mr Linus Awute, who disclosed this during an event to flag off the 2015 World Breastfeeding Week in Abuja with the theme: "Breastfeeding and Work, Let's Make it Work," said exclusive breastfeeding meant that the infant receives only breast milk.
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