In India, Breast Milk Banks Promote Health
On this week’s BBC World Service Health Check, Nivedita Pathak reports on a new method to promote breast feeding:
The milk bank at JJ Hospital in Mumbai opened for business in April this year and has already collected 175 litres of milk. Every day, about ten women donate milk once or twice, using an electronic breast pump. Then it’s checked in the lab for infection, pasteurised and given to the babies who need it.
Also in this broadcast, Cambodian soap operas, billboards and interpersonal health worker training boosts breastfeeding.
For more resources on breastfeeding see the INFO Reports issue on the topic here.
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