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ACT I OF 2014 ACT I OF 2014 BALOCHISTAN PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF BREAST-FEEDING AND CHILD NUTRITION ACT, 2014 An Act to provide for the protection of breast-feeding and nutrition for infants and young children CHAPTER IV INFORMATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS 10. Health Workers and Health Care Facilities.---(1) Health workers shall encourage, support and protect breast-feeding. They shall be expected to know the provisions of this Act, in particular any instructions, guidelines or policies published under Section 9, and to implement the same whenever possible. (2) Health workers shall not accept or give samples of any designated product to any person, particularly pregnant women, mothers of infants and young children, or members of their families. (3) Health workers and their associations shall not promote in any way whatsoever, any designated product. (4) Health workers falling within the jurisdiction of Government shall make in writing a report to the Board, any offer of a gift or other financial benefit made by a manufacturer or distributor or any other contravention of the provisions of this Act or the rules, noticed by them. (5) There shall be kept posted in every health care facility in Urdu and English, as may be deemed appropriate by the health care facility, such abstracts of this Act as may be prescribed by the Government, for this purpose.