Chittor’s human milk bank best in Raj

Jaipur: Human milk bank in Chittorgarh has been adjudged as the best in all 16 such banks operational in the state.

In a state level function organised at Indira Gandhi Panchayati Raj Sansthan for celebrating first annual function of milk banks in the state, 14 persons received awards in different categories associated to mothers’ milk bank in different ways.

So far, 49 lakh millilitres of milk has been donated by 23,048 lactating mothers. From the donated milk, the milk banks produced 1.58 lakh units of milk having 30ml of milk in each unit. Out of 1.58 lakh units, 1.27 lakh unit of milk has already been provided to needy neonates (under-28 day infants).

State advisor mother milk banks, Yog Guru Devendra Agarwal said, they have 11,670 units of milk in stock at the moment in 16 functional mother milk banks.

The milk was provided to neonates undergoing treatment at ICUs in different government hospitals.

Officials said that the milk is provided to those neonates who are deprived of their mother’s milk due to health related problems.

The milk banks are situated at Beawar, Banswara, Baran, Bhilwara, Bharatpur, Bundi, Chittorgarh, Churu, Tonk, Udaipur, Barmer, Jalore, Rajsamand, Karauli and Dholpur. In Sawai Madhopur and Sirohi, the construction work for mothers’ milk bank is in progress. Over the past two years, the state has developed a network of mothers’ milk bank.

Officials said that it is clinical milk banking which surely helps saving life of neo-natal that eventually reduces infant mortality rate. In clinical milk banking, a neonatal is provided with mother milk from the existing milk bank who is admitted to a hospital or his or her mother is admitted to the hospital.