Health experts and MPs have called for a heavy tax and import ban on infant formula.
Only one senator participated in the awareness session organized by the Federal Ministry of Health for the Members of Parliament.
Senator Sahar Kamran says that there is a need to make strict laws related to artificial milk for children, like cigarettes, heavy taxes should be imposed on formula milk.
Professor Jamal Raza says that the demand of Pakistan Pediatric Association is to ban the import of formula milk, there is no mechanism to check the price and quality of artificial milk for children. Pakistan spends $400 million on importing infant formula.
Director General Health Dr. Basir Achakzai says that the Quran orders mothers to breastfeed their children for two years.
According to Senator Sahar Kamran, breastfeeding mothers are ridiculed in public places in Pakistan.
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