Human milk bank

Human milk bank is a service that collects, processes, stores and dispenses human milk for ensuring optimum nutrition for new-borns. Recently, North-east’s first human milk bank had been set up at Guwahati in Assam. This is the 15^th unit in India. It collects milk from willing mothers who are lactating. It pasteurizes breast milk after screening it and stores it in deep freeze. This can be stored from 6 months to 6 years.