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Article: RP's first community Milk Bank launched in Makati.
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- Philippines News Agency
- Article date:
- August 15, 2008
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MANILA, Aug. 14 (PNA) -- At least 130 lactating mothers in Makati City donated on Thursday their breast milk to the countrys first community milk bank.
Senator Pia Cayetano, who led the launching of the human milk donating activity in Barangay Guadalupe Nuevo, Makati, said this is an effort to raise the awareness to revive the culture of breastfeeding.
"This is a pioneering effort to mobilize women in a community to donate their milk which will be donated to the human milk banks of different maternal and newborn hospitals," said Cayetano, head of the Senate Committee on Health and Demography.
Using 10 manual and one electric breast pumps, each ...