The public health department remains making it a priority to help many of these families who struggle finding formula.
“It seems like from week to week that it will be one formula that is in decent supply,” Corey Kirkland, administrator for the Southeastern public health district, said. “I won’t say it’s in great supply, but it’s in decent supply for what’s needed and then another formula will go down in supply.”“Parents are having to hunt probably from store to store and call around to find where the formula is that they would prefer to use but it’s ongoing but it’s manageable at this point,” Kirkland said.
“We work directly with a lot of those moms to find what they need,” Kirkland said. “We give them alternatives on what they can feed that child, there’s actually a brochure that we have come up with in state office that we can give them.” The health department also has a limited number of supplies of formulas on hand to purchase with WIC vouchers.