A modern and sophisticated breast milk bank was inaugurated on 7
August 2013 at the state-run Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial Hospital
(SSKM) by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
This novel
scheme was launched to cater to the basic needs of a child who is just
born, but does not get the milk from the mother or when the mother dies
after giving birth to the child.
About Breast Milk Bank
• The breast milk bank would help specially to non-lactating mothers.
The stored milk can be used to feed babies whose mothers fall ill
during the six-month lactating period after pregnancy.
• Breast milk donor mothers are women whose premature infants are
admitted to the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), pregnant
women who deliver their babies at SSKM and even expectant mothers who
do not deliver their babies at the hospital but are admitted to the
outpatient department.
• The milk bank will also be an option for those mothers who have
adopted children, possess insufficient milk glands and have an history
of past breast surgery or cancer. The bank was being funded by the
National Health Renewal Mission.
This is the country's second breast milk bank, the first being established in Mumbai on 27 November 1989.
The
concept of such milk banks is quite popular in the UK, United States of
America and Sweden. Such facilities also come to the rescue of
abandoned babies and those born premature.
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