Makati City has opened a human milk bank in Barangay Bangkal, the first human milk bank in the country that will be operated by a local government.
“This human milk bank has been put up so that motherless infants in our city and neighboring cities will not be deprived of their rightful share of God’s wonderful gift to every newborn, to every child,” Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay Jr. said in a Philippine Star report.
Dr. Estela Barrios of the Makati health department said the milk bank is equipped with a human milk pasteurizer, a bio-refrigerator, two large freezers, and an electric dishwasher and sterilizer.
The milk bank will be run by a doctor, a nurse, two midwives, and two medical technologists, all of whom have been trained by the Philippine Children’s Medical Hospital.
