{"id":111238,"date":"2018-04-05T13:50:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T17:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=111238"},"modified":"2018-04-05T13:50:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T17:50:38","slug":"promoting-breastfeeding-ruling-passed-after-23-year-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/04\/05\/promoting-breastfeeding-ruling-passed-after-23-year-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting breastfeeding, ruling passed after 23-year delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_111804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111804\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111804\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Breast-feeding-Presidency-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Breast feeding \/ Presidency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Danilo Medina issued Decree 142-18 with the ruling for the application of Breastfeeding Law 8-95. The decree establishes the promotion of breastfeeding as a national priority. The ruling should have been issued in 1995 when the law was originally passed.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation seeks to encourage the practice of exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of a child\u2019s life. The ruling regulates the marketing of baby milk formulas, among other matters seeking to encourage breastfeeding.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Public Health is responsible to apply Law 8-95 and its ruling nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/noticias\/danilo-medina-dicta-reglamento-aplicacion-ley-declara-como-prioridad-fomento-lactancia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Presidencia <\/a><\/p>\n<p>5 April 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Danilo Medina issued Decree 142-18 with the ruling for the application of Breastfeeding Law 8-95. The decree establishes the promotion of breastfeeding as a national priority. The ruling should have been issued in 1995 when the law was originally passed. The legislation seeks to encourage the practice of exclusive breastfeeding for the first six &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/04\/05\/promoting-breastfeeding-ruling-passed-after-23-year-delay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}