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WATCH | Baragwanath Hospital expands lactation centre to support new mothers

The Gauteng health department has launched an expanded Ronald McDonald House Charities lactation facility at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto.

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5 August 2025. Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital launches an extention of the lactation centre that now caters about 40 mothers, encouraging and supporting breastfeeding and those donating breastmilk. Picture: Refilwe Kholomonyane
Bara lactation centre 5 August 2025. Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital launches an extention of the lactation centre that now caters about 40 mothers, encouraging and supporting breastfeeding and those donating breastmilk. Picture: Refilwe Kholomonyane Picture: Refilwe Kholomonyane

The Gauteng health department has launched an expanded Ronald McDonald House Charities lactation facility at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto.

The initiative aims to:

  • promote exclusive breastfeeding;
  • support maternal and infant health; and
  • provide safe, dignified spaces for mothers to express milk.

This is particularly vital for premature and ill babies admitted to the hospital’s neonatal care units.

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