Article: WA: Hospital to set up breast milk bank


AAP General News (Australia)
03-13-2006
WA: Hospital to set up breast milk bank

PERTH, March 13 AAP - A West Australian hospital is setting up the nation's first breast
milk bank.

Perth's King Edward Memorial Hospital will officially open the new human milk bank
at the end of March or early April.

Behind the scheme is Professor Karen Simmer, medical director of the hospital's neonatology
clinical care unit, who says the milk will help premature babies.

"Human milk adds a lot of ...

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