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Article: Bulgarian Breast Milk Bank Serves Mothers
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 20, 1997
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The "Children Food and Breast Milk Bank" Center in Bulgaria
provides free breast milk to nursing mothers unable to breast feed.
The center is in Sofia, capital of Bulgaria. Its Breast Milk Bank
was built in June, 1989 in response to a decision by the Council of
Ministers.
Director of the center, Tania Vasileva, said today that in
addition to providing free human milk to hospitals and "homes for
mothers and babies", the bank also provided free milk to sick
nursing
mothers not able to breast feed.
Those willing to buy breast milk can get a liter from the bank for
only 1,239 Lev (about 67 U.S. cents).
The costs of ...