The State’s first human milk bank has been established under the aegis of the Rotary Club of Tirupati. It will be inaugurated at the Government Maternity Hospital in Tirupati on Wednesday, April 3.
The idea is to encourage mothers endowed with surplus milk to donate it. Mothers who unfortunately lost their infants or women who had a failed delivery are also considered probable donors.
“Their consent will be of great help as an estimated 8 lakh infants are deprived of mother’s milk in India,” says T. Damodaram, chairman of the Rotary Human Milk Bank project.
