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Article: STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, INDIANA MOTHERS' MILK BANK PARTNER TO PROMOTE BREASTFEEDING
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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The Indiana Department of Health issued the following news release:
State Health Commissioner Judy Monroe, M.D. announced today the opening of Indiana's first breast milk depot at the Monroe County Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) office in Bloomington.
The WIC Program at the Indiana State Department of Health is partnering with the Indiana Mothers' Milk Bank to establish milk depots at select WIC offices around the state. The milk depots will provide a location for women to donate pumped breast milk to the Indiana Mothers' Milk Bank. Three additional milk depots will be opened in the next year at the WIC offices in Delaware, LaPorte, and Tippecanoe counties.
"We are pleased to have this ...