Madhur Sneha - West Bengal

Introduction

Breastfeeding and a person's milk diet have a key role in preventing life-threatening infections in infants during the COVID-19 pandemic thus reducing the strain on the health system. Considering that, India features a high new-born death rate and a 3rd of all preterm births, within the world, ensuring adequate availability of breastmilk becomes even more pertinent. Of the 25 million births, nearly 43% (11 Million) aren't breastfed within the primary hour and nearly 30-50% preterm/sick babies in neonatal medical care units (NICU) in India lack access to breastmilk.

The Hon'ble Chief Minister Ms. Mamata Banerjee launched Eastern India's first and country's most modernized "Human Milk Bank" in SSKM Hospital in August 2013. it's equipped with pasteurization and most advanced milk collection, screening, processing, testing and storage facilities. The project is known as "Madhur Sneha" Babies who are prematurely born, or are of very low birth weight or those babies whose mothers are unable to feed directly are often recipients of banked milk from "Madhur Sneha".

It is equipped with pasteurization and most advanced milk collection, screening, processing, testing and storage facilities. The project is known as “Madhur Sneha”.

Babies who are prematurely born, or are of very low birth weight or those babies whose mothers are unable to feed directly are often recipients of banked milk from “Madhur Sneha”.

Stressing the importance of breastfeeding, she said at the inauguration that Madhur Sneha “is the foremost modernised and advanced breast milk bank found out with utmost care in order that it (breast milk) is infection-free and caters to the requirements of babies who normally don't get mother’s milk.”

This human milk bank is provided with machines for pasteurisation of the milk and therefore the most advanced milk collection, screening, processing, testing and storage facilities.

Over the years, Madhur Sneha has done yeoman’s service for infants. consistent with a report, in 2017, 1,554 new-borns admitted within the SNCU/NICU at SSKM received pasteurised milk from the milk bank.

Eligibility Criteria

As such Madhur Sneha has no eligibility criteria and is solely for the unfortunate babies/children who are not able to get mother’s milk are eligible in this scheme.

Conclusion

Madhur Sneha is a very crucial stap that Bengal Government took. All over the world there are kids who are not able to get Mother’s milk and countries like UK had established a name in Milk Bank for kids. Madhur Sneha will provide and is providing help to those unfortunate kids.