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CMC’s neonatology dept. now has a breast milk bank
- | Saturday | 14th January, 2017
This prompted the idea of establishing a breast milk bank at the hospital, he said, adding that the first human milk bank was started in Mumbai in the late 1980s. Christian Medical College’s Department of Neonatology now has a breast milk bank. With the breast milk bank opened at CMC on Thursday, the doctors and nurses would approach mothers to volunteer to donate milk. They cannot feed the babies for the first few days, while some mothers cannot produce adequate breast milk,” he said. “Premature babies can be fed only breast milk.
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