23.01.2014

We had a very busy day doing home visits, checking on some of the pregnant and chronic patients. We invited all of the women and the fathers of the babies in the Ermita sector to a results presentation and more focus groups for the exclusive breast-feeding project, for which we have found that there is an overall deficiency in exclusive breast-feeding before six months of age.

Hopefully, a more detailed explanation of this will be presented at the CUGH meeting in the Spring!  Now the aim is to get input from men through focus groups, to look for an additional avenue of intervention. The women were quite positive about coming, but for the men it may be difficult as many are still working at the time of the presentation. By the end of the morning, we are all ready for a siesta as it is very hot. We post-poned the other sector for the next day in the afternoon.