Kerala all set to open its first human milk bank on February 5
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Published: Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 14:15 [IST]
Kochi, Feb 02: Kerala s first Human Milk Bank (HMB), a state-of-art facility will be opened at the Ernakulam general hospital on Friday by Health Minister KK Shailaja. Set up with the support of the Rotary Club of Cochin Global, the milk bank is to ensure breast milk for new born babies, who are not being breastfed by their own mothers who may be sick, deceased or due to insufficient production of breast milk, in the hospital.
Although approximately 3600 babies are born in the general hospital a year, 600 to 1,000 sick babies are admitted into the NICU. Providing the low birth-weight premature babies, infants whose mothers are unable to provide sufficient milk and babies separated from mothers due to many reasons with the pasteurized breast milk from the bank will reduce the risk of infections and boost their immunity, said Dr Paul PG of Rotary Cochin Global.
Kerala’s first human milk bank to be inaugurated in Kochi on Friday
Health Minister K K Shailaja will inaugurate ‘Nectar of Life’, the first human milk bank in the state, at the Ernakulam General Hospital on Friday.
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KOCHI: Health Minister K K Shailaja will inaugurate ‘Nectar of Life’, the first human milk bank in the state, at the Ernakulam General Hospital on Friday. The state-of-the-art facility has been set up to ensure availability of breast milk for newborns who are not being breastfed by their mothers, who may be sick, deceased or due to insufficient production of breast milk, in the hospital.
State’s first human milk bank to be opened at Ernakulam General Hospital
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Facility to ensure breast milk for newborn babies
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Facility to ensure breast milk for newborn babies
Kerala’s first Human Milk Bank, ‘Nectar of Life’, will be opened at Ernakulam General Hospital on Friday. Health Minister K.K. Shylaja will inaugurate the facility at a function at the the hospital at 3 p.m. It’s being set up with the support of the Rotary Club of Cochin Global. The facility is set up with an aim to ensure breast milk for newborn babies who are not being breastfed by their own mothers who may be sick, deceased or due to insufficient production of breast milk. “Though the concept had come to India 32 years ago, Kerala did not have a milk bank till now. This is where Rotary took the lead to bring the project to the State with two breast milk banks one at Ernakulam and the other at Jubilee Medical Mission Hospital in Thrissur,” stated Madhav Ch