PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

This is a 20 Hour course suitable for staff who has contact with pregnant women, mothers and their newborn infants. This may include doctors, nurses, midwives, health care assistants, nutritionists, peer supporters and other staff. The course itself can provide a common foundation for basic breastfeeding management that will then ensure long term implementation of appropriate policies that support optimal infant feeding. This course also help equip the hospital staff with the knowledge and skills necessary to transform the health facility into baby-friendly institutions through implementation of Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding and to sustain policy and practice changes.

OBJECTIVES

1. Participants will understand what Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) is.<br/>2. Discuss the 10 Steps of Successful Breastfeeding (2018)<br/>3. Discuss EO 51 and RA 10028<br/>

SCHEDULE

Date/s of Conduct	Venue	Attendance
AUGUST 16, 17-18, 2023	DR. JOSE RIZAL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 2ND FLOOR. ADMIN. CONFERENCE ROOM

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