Milk banks come to the rescue of babies

HYDERABAD: The city's most vulnerable newborns are sipping their way to better health thanks to new-age milk banks that are springing up here. Strange as it may sound but 40 new mothers are donating their breast milk every month for premature and very low birth weight babies undergoing treatment at Fernandez Hospital's neo-natal intensive care unit (NICU) in Hyderguda. Taking a cue from the concept, working mothers are increasingly found contributing to mini-milk banks by storing their milk in bottles to be...