Sharing milk, saving lives: Ugandan breast milk bank helps fragile premature babies • FRANCE 24

School nurse Bali Babu credles the baby she adopted 5 months ago. A little girl born too small too soon. She weighed 1 kilogram and her mother had died in child birth. The infant was given a second chance. How are you? In that situation, we got a a a company called Ata and they gave us a blessed mira giving the baby the blessed milk and the baby when gain that 1.5 we was able to be discharged from Morago hospital to go home. ATA, a Ugandan nonprofit organization, collects, pasteurizes, and delivers human milk to babies in need. Since its launch in 2021, it has delivered over,200 L of milk to more than 650 babies. All donors are medically screened. Still, the idea of shared breast milk remains culturally sensitive. It’s like blood. If you have an accident and you need blood, will they transfuse you with your own blood? You get blood from another person. So if someone can get blood which goes into your brain which goes in everywhere and people accepted blood. What a breast milk which you take and you pass out. So the main thing is proper education of the communities and then some of these cultural barriers can be overcome. Prematurity remains the leading cause of death for children under five globally and Uganda is no exception with a neonatal mortality rate of 19 per thousand live births. The Ugandan government is now taking steps to scale up the initiative with more regional human milk banks across the country. For Bib and her adopted daughter, breast milk sharing was more than a medical solution. It was a gift of survival.

Ugandan NGO Atta collects, pasteurizes, and delivers human milk to babies in need. Prematurity is the leading cause of death among children under five years old globally.
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