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Breast Milk Bank in Nairobi Shows Impact

Sarah Kimani

   NAIROBI - Medical experts in Kenya are banking on human breast milk to
   save the lives of newborn babies.

   Nairobi's Pumwani Maternity Hospital has set up East Africa's first
   breast milk bank the second in Africa -- to provide donated milk to
   babies in need.

   At the hospital it is feeding time as Mary Auma holds onto a bottle
   with one hand as the other supports her baby, who was born one month
   early.

   Auma has been sick so she cannot breastfeed as recommended by the World
   Health Organization and would have been forced to use less healthy
   formula milk.

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