Public Hospitals Ban Infant Formula Representatives: Pediatricians Shocked by Health Ministry Guidelines

Breastfeeding rates are stagnating significantly, with fewer than 20% of infants exclusively breastfed during the first six months of life today. On September 16, the Ministry of Health sent a circular to all hospital administrators, without consulting stakeholders such as the Pediatric Society and infant formula distributors, instructing them to prohibit, among other things, access to their facilities for representatives of infant formula.