translated from Spanish: UNICEF: after adoption of Act of lactation free, now the challenge is to implement milk banks

The United Nations Fund for children (Unicef) welcomed the adoption by the Congress of the project that protects the free exercise of breastfeeding, and stressed that the challenge now is moving forward in the implementation of the human milk banks, look you in the Act.
The Bill establishes the free exercise of lactation, sanctioning any arbitrary discrimination which would deprive, disturb or threaten this right. One of the relevant aspects of the legal initiative is that it opens the possibility of creating banks of human milk and the donation of milk, in order to deliver them to newborns who for some reason do not have this power.
The early childhood development of the organism, Patricia Núñez Officer recalled that currently there is only a milk bank in operation at the Hospital Sótero del Río hospital, so once the law is necessary to implement more of these centers throughout the country.
“This work will require resources for its proper functioning State safeguarding the quality of the milk to be stored in these banks”, he stressed.
Núñez also stressed that this draft law had as the best interests of the child, and stressed that it is necessary to move forward in concrete measures like this that ensure the right to be breastfed children and their mothers to be able to do it with peace of mind.

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