JOURNALISTS have been requested to spearhead conversations on little one and adolescent diet to advertise good nurturing practices throughout the nation.
They’re to develop into and stay advocates on the difficulty to be able to assist tackle all types of malnutrition.
The decision was made to some journalists at a coaching on early childhood diet care and growth and adolescent diet in Accra final Friday.
Organised by the Mahogany Seek the advice of with assist from the United Nations Kids’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Ghana Well being Service (GHS), a minimum of 16 journalists visited the Kids’s Out Affected person Division (OPD) on the Better Accra Regional Hospital to be educated on proceedings over there.
On the “Equipping media employees with data to assist media reportage on diet and nurturing care,” the go to was adopted by a workshop the place they acquired training by consultants.
On the Kids’s OPD, the journalists visited the antenatal clinic, put up natal clinic, little one welfare clinic and the diet division for discussions on proceedings in addition to monitor the usage of the Maternal and Baby Well being RecordBook (MCH File Guide).
A Communication Specialist, UNICEF, Mentimeter Exercise, Offeibea Baddoo, talking on the workshop inspired journalists to assist generate insightful and impactful protection to tell and affect approaches and opinions of many key stakeholders.
She beseeched them to utilize the alternatives they’d in commanding a mass viewers of a number of targets to coach them on the significance of optimum infants, and younger little one feeding practices in addition to adolescent diet.
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