Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari on Friday inaugurated the Himalayan nation's first-ever human milk bank at a maternity and women’s hospital here to give premature and other at-risk infants access to the vast benefits of breast milk when they need it the most. ‘Amrit Kosh,’ the human milk bank at the Paropakar Maternity and Women’s Hospital has the facilities to collect,
The human milk bank has the facilities to collect, pasteurise, test, and store safe donor human milk from lactating mothers and then provide it to infants in need.