FHAKA: A Bangladesh hospital on Monday (Dec 30) has suspended plans to give donated breast milk to babies after a backlash by Muslim clerics who said the scheme violated Islamic law.
A woman carrying her child, whose shelter has been burned after a fire broke out in a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A Bangladesh hospital on Monday has suspended plans to give donated breast milk to babies after a backlash by Muslim clerics who said the scheme violated Islamic law. - Reuters
The programme aimed to feed up to 500 orphans and infants of working mothers in the Muslim-majority country, which has high rates of child malnutrition and stunted growth. "Their entire marriage and lineage would become illegal," said Gazi Ataur Rahman, a spokesman of the influential Islami Andolan Bangladesh political party."It would go against Islam," he said, suggesting that the authorities should have discussed this"very sensitive issue" beforehand with clerics.
Top child specialists had backed the milk bank, saying it was needed to help save child lives as well as aid their growth.
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