{"id":9223,"date":"2025-08-02T20:59:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T15:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=9223"},"modified":"2025-08-02T20:59:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T15:59:55","slug":"mothers-hold-breast-feeding-week-in-five-districts-including-sukkur-and-launch-nari-foundations-awareness-campaign-on-world-child-health-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=9223","title":{"rendered":"Mothers hold Breast feeding Week in five districts including Sukkur and launch NARI Foundation&#8217;s awareness campaign on World Child Health Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SUKKUR<br><\/strong>:An important press briefing was held at the Sukkur National Press Club by NARI Foundation to mark the beginning of World Maternal and Child Health Week.The briefing was attended by Executive Director Anwar Mahar, Ahmed Bux Channa, Project Manager Shazia Abbasi, Sarfaraz Memon, and Amjad Mehar.In his address, Anwar Mahar stated that the health of mothers and children is the foundation of any society. \u201cA healthy mother guarantees a healthy generation,\u201d he said. He emphasized that breast milk, a balanced diet, and timely immunization during a child\u2019s early years are essential for both physical and mental development.He further explained that, with financial support from IRC International and the European Union, NARI Foundation along with RDO and other partners is running an awareness campaign under the SIGN Project from August 1st to 7th. The campaign includes free medical camps and maternal health interventions across various districts, including Sukkur, Khairpur, Ghotki, Naushahro Feroze, and Kashmore-Kandhkot.<br>Project Manager Shazia Abbasi highlighted the enforcement of the Sindh Breastfeeding Promotion Act 2023, which legally mandates breastfeeding for newborns. \u201cWe have launched a week-long breastfeeding awareness campaign to educate mothers about the importance of feeding their child immediately after birth,\u201d she said.Abbasi added that, according to medical experts, baby boys should be breastfed for at least two years and baby girls for up to two and a half years. She warned that a growing number of young women in both urban and rural areas are developing breast cancer due to the lack of breastfeeding. \u201cIf mothers do not start breastfeeding immediately after birth, there is a high risk of them developing cancer and ending up in hospitals later in life,\u201d she cautioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUKKUR:An important press briefing was held at the Sukkur National Press Club by NARI Foundation to mark the beginning of World Maternal and Child Health Week.The briefing was attended by Executive Director Anwar Mahar, Ahmed Bux Channa, Project Manager Shazia Abbasi, Sarfaraz Memon, and Amjad Mehar.In his address, Anwar Mahar stated that the health of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","inline_featured_image":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_798604363342440":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9225,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223\/revisions\/9225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}