WBW Workshop

UTAR Centre for Research on Non-Communicable Disease (CRNCD) conducted a workshop on maintaining lactation among working women in conjunction with this year’s World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) themed, “Breastfeeding and Work. Let’s make it Work!”, held at Kajang female prison on 6 August 2015.

“The goal of celebrating WBW is to promote exclusive breastfeeding among mothers for the first six months of life which yields tremendous health benefits, providing critical nutrients, protection from deadly diseases, fostering growth and development of young children,” said Department of Nursing lecturer and workshop leader, Jayanthi Marimuthu.

Jayanthi presented an informative talk on how to sustain breastfeeding while working. Twenty participating wardens divided into groups and were led by committee members, Liew Siew Fun and Ng Siow Fam, who demonstrated how to express the breast milk manually.

WBW is an annual celebration, being held every year from 1 to 7 August. It was first celebrated in 1992 by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) and it is now observed in over 120 countries globally, including Malaysia.

This programme is organized by the CRNCD as part of their community project, which aims to improve the health of Malaysians through research, education, and the generation of scientific knowledge and information on health.

Presentation on breastfeeding by Jayanthi

Demonstrating how to express breast milk

Puan Zuriah (second from left) receiving a UTAR pennant from Department of Nursing specialist, Woo Li Fong