Lagos State Civil Servants Get Six Months Maternity Leave

"The Lagos State government has appealed to the female civil servants
in the state to take the advantage of the six months maternity leave
approved for them to breastfeed their babies exclusively for healthy
growth of the babies.


The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, while speaking at
the breastfeeding awareness week organised by a charity, Child Health
Advocacy Initiative (CHAI) in collaboration with Ikeja Local
Government Authority in Lagos noted that the state government is doing
all in its power to ensure that child health is given the best of
care.


He said that global leaders met in year 2000 and came up with eight
point agenda known as Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on health
and other issues to put global health in proper perspectives,
stressing that one of the objectives was to reduce child morbidity and
maternal mortality to the nearest minimum.

In Lagos State today, there is free medical treatment for children
below the age of five years, so as to reduce the burden of
out-of-pocket payment by parents and to encourage them to visit the
health care institutions as soon as they notice that their children
are ill."


That's great! We are now waiting for the private sector to come up
with their own "baby friendly" policy. It could centred around a work
from home option.

Source: thisday live.