New Delhi, 16 September (IANS). India’s famous badminton player Jwala Gutta is known for her aggressive drop shots and Four Fourhand Service. Recently, he did a ‘service’ which has all -round discussion! He donated about 30 liters of breast milk. Her actor-director husband Vishnu Vishal gave information about this through social media posts.
He made this donation through ‘Amritam Foundation’, which works to collect breast milk from mothers and make it reach the needy newborns. This milk was further sent to the Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children in Chennai. Breast Milk Bank has been doing its work in India for more than three decades. The question arises that what is the benefit from it and how it reaches the needy infants.
When enough milk is made for her child in a healthy mother’s body and additional milk is also produced, she can donate this extra milk to a human milk bank. There this milk is tested and westernly given to premature or sick children. These are children whose mothers are not able to drink milk. That is why it is called liquid gold i.e. liquid gold!
‘Liquid Gold’ has been given prematurely and to save the life of sick newborns. It contains every nutrient, antibodies, and enzymes required for the baby. Mother’s milk contains bactericidal elements, which increase the immunity of the child, and the most cute thing is that the mother can donate an average of 25–30 ml extra milk in a day, which can meet the needs of an baby.
After all, what is the entire process? Donated milk is westernized and can be protected for 3 to 6 months in the freezer. A very important thing, the first blood test of Datri Maa is done. The mother should be completely healthy and does not have any serious illness or infections like HIV or hepatitis. Medical screening is necessary before donation. In some countries, breast milk is also sold online, but in India it is completely free and humanity based service, exactly the same as Jwala Gutta did!
Jwala gave birth to a daughter in the month of April. Since then this sequence is on. On August 17, he told on social media that his milk is not only for his baby girl, but also for children who are fighting the battle of life – those children who are born prematurely and are ill. Donor milk can change life. She had shared some pictures with this post in which she was seen sitting with 70 packets of milk.
Actually, the objective of this initiative is to ‘make aware of milk donation’ and inspire other mothers to participate in this human work.
The tradition of milk donation is not new. In India, ‘Dhatri Maa’ or ‘Milk Mata’ is mentioned in centuries old stories. In olden times, when a woman did not know milk or she used to lose the child, another woman used to raise that baby with her milk. It was considered a ‘sacred duty’.
Scientifically, the first official ‘Human Milk Bank’ was established in 1909 in Vienna. So the first milk bank in India was started in 1989 at Sion Hospital, Mumbai. Today there are dozens of milk banks across the country, which give life to premature and sick babies.
This type of donation is not just a person’s job, but a big message for society that breast milk is not just for a mother’s child, but a boon for needy newborns. Premature saves mother’s milk for children because their immune systems are weak and there is a high risk of external infections.
Gutta has set an example of a wonderful humanity. He is a well-known personality whose move has explained the importance of this very important donation to many. This donation has explained that Mamta cannot be tied in words, but sometimes a few drops can give a new dawn to a life.
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