Health Board Chair pushes for six-month maternity leave, lobbies Bauchi Assembly

The Bauchi State House of Assembly has been urged to o.k. the projected six-month maternity permission for breastfeeding mothers successful the state.

The telephone was made by the Executive Chairman of the Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Board, Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, portion speaking with journalists connected the sidelines of the 2026 International Women’s Day solemnisation held successful Bauchi.

Mohammed said the argumentation had already been approved by the State Executive Council astir a twelvemonth agone but inactive requires legislative backing to go law.

According to him, the projected instrumentality is aimed astatine strengthening maternal and kid wellness by giving nursing mothers capable clip to practise exclusive breastfeeding.

He explained that the argumentation would besides present workplace enactment for mothers, including the constitution of crèches wherever nursing mothers tin support and breastfeed their babies during moving hours, arsenic good arsenic flexible moving arrangements.

He noted that the International Women’s Day commemoration provides an accidental for stakeholders to measure advancement connected women-related policies and guarantee that sex issues stay a precedence successful governance.

He identified aboriginal marriage, teenage gestation and schoolhouse dropouts among girls arsenic immoderate of the large challenges affecting women and girls successful the state.

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