Women milk bank opens up in Jaipur
Jaipur, April 01 (ANI): Rajasthan has become the second state in the whole country which has a government owned Human Milk Bank. In collaboration with a non-governmental organisation, the state government launched the bank in Pink City Jaipur, which will provide mother's milk free of cost to infants who are deprived of it. According to officials at the unit, infant mortality rate is very high in Rajasthan due to high non-availability of mother's milk on time. The centre has benefited many mothers who suffer from hyper-lactation and infants whose mothers are ill. The process of donation starts only after the donors are screened and medically tested for HIV, Syphilis, Hepatitis and other diseases. This is followed by pasteurization of milk that takes around three months. First government sector bank was opened in Kolkata and Jaipur is the second in this series.
