The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii, yesterday, lamented that over 194,000 Nigerian children under the age of five die annually as a result of diarrhoea.
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He warned that the alarming figure was a wake-up call to Nigerian mothers to ensure that their babies were properly breast-fed in their formative years in order to avert avoidable deaths among children in the country.
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Orhii stated this in Makurdi in a paper he presented at the 2013 World Breastfeeding year, entitled, 'An Overview of the International/National Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes.'
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He said, "according to figures recently released by the United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF, about 194, 000 children under five die annually as a result of diarrhoea in Nigeria.
Infant mortality is nothing to write home about cos it's not proper. In a country like Nigeria, things like that should not happen. We have doctors!
We don't just need those dileases in that house anymore. They just jave to go once and for all. It' slows down deveopment!