BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The first of a series of breast milk collection sites has opened as part of a state plan intended in part to benefit ill or premature infants.
State health commissioner Judy Monroe attended Friday's opening of Indiana's first "breast milk depot" at a Women, Infants and Children office in Bloomington. She said similar depots will open next year at three other WIC offices in Indiana.
Women visiting such depots can donate pumped breast milk that will be given to Indiana Mothers' Milk Bank in Indianapolis, one of 10 such banks in the United States.
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