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Breastfeeding can reduce infant mortality rate by 13pc: Experts [1]

The four-month-old baby was crying at the top of his voice while the mother was cursing her fate sitting beside the baby for her failure to buy tinned milk being a wife of a rickshawpuller at Kamrangeer Char area of the city.

Failing to provide tinned milk, she was giving the baby rice powder mixing with water. The baby was also receiving breast milk.

Publication Date: 
02/08/2008
Daily Star (Bangladesh) [2]
Tags:
Infant mortality [3], Diarrhoea [4], Bangladesh [5]
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