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Article: Health Ministry abandons idea of national mother's milk bank
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- March 27, 2007
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JUDY SIEGEL
Jerusalem Post
03-27-2007
Headline: Health Ministry abandons idea of national mother's milk bank
Byline: JUDY SIEGEL
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 01
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 -- Almost two years ago - in honor of Breast-feeding Encouragement Week - then-health minister Dan Naveh declared that the ministry would "help establish" a mother's milk bank to feed the 700 premature babies born with gastrological conditions that deteriorate with commercial milk formula and whose mothers could not breast- feed.
But on Monday, with Naveh long out of the ministry, the Health Ministry announced that it had set down "standards for the operation of mother's milk banks" if anyone cared to go ...