Breastfeeding is a world Politics
Interview with O. L. Lukoyanova, Professor, MD, leading researcher at the National Medical Research Center for Children's Health, Ministry of Health of Russia. Olga Leonidovna is a pediatrician working since 1992. She is works on the problems of organizing and supporting breastfeeding, nursing mother diet, organizing supplemental feeding for healthy children and children with various pathologies (including premature birth). The National Medical Research Center for Children's Health is the Leadership Center, which is of particular importance in the formation of the Strategy for improving Children's Health in Russia and the implementation of the main directions of the Decade of Childhood (2018-2027). The center staff consists of highly qualified specialists, including 5 RAS Corresponding members, 36 Professors, 4 Honored Scientists of the Russian Federation, 4 Honored Doctors of the Russian Federation, 70 doctors and 150 candidates of sciences. Such multidisciplinary issues of prevention, diagnosis, high-tech treatment, rehabilitation, hygiene and health protection of children and adolescents are being successfully implemented scientifically and practically in the Center. In 2014, at the Scientific Center for Children's Health, under the auspices of the Union of Pediatricians of Russia, the first breast milk bank in Russia was created on the basis of the department for premature babies. Interviewed by the editor-in-chief of the journal «Medical opponent», PhD S.V. Kamzolova