Abstract

BEJARANO RONCANCIO, Jhon Jairo. Lactary in the hospital: a paradigmatic policy or promote and protect breast feeding. rev.fac.med. [online]. 2012, vol.60, n.2, pp.117-125. ISSN 0120-0011.

Without forgetting that human milk is the best food for babies, this text aims to review the operation of lactaria in the hospital setting and describe how it articulates its existence from the policy of promoting, protecting and supporting breastfeeding. Since the implementation of global actions to encourage and increase lactation, has been questioned by lactaria favor the use of substitutes to fit on the initiative "Institutions friends of women and children" from UNICEF. Its main function is the production of infant formula, calculated from the consumption needs of the child population, but a regulation, the hospitals with obstetrics and pediatrics, should have it because the process of enabling institutional forces him, in addition, medical situations where breastfeeding is contraindicated or personal reasons such as maternal death, among others, are necessary to provide infant formula and when you do not have a human milk bank. Another additional aggravating is that the culture of human milk donation is not sensitized socially and beneficiary families reject despite the motivation of health and scientific evidence. From the administrative resources to implement the banks are not sustainable because it requires a large infrastructure to ensure the safety of this product. These circumstances, of course, carry forward the guiding policy actions in health and achieve program goals.

Keywords : Breastfeeding; Promotion; Health Policy.

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