Fig. 1
From: Role of human milk banks amid COVID 19: perspective from a milk bank in India
Levels of facility-based Lactation Management Centres in India. Functions of a human milk bank include lactation support and consultation, expression by electric pumps, collection, storage and processing of human milk and dispensing to NICUs. According to the Indian guidelines for CLMCs, electric breast pumps are provided in LMCs and CLMCs and pasteurization units (Milk Processing) is limited to CLMCs. Milk collected at LMCs is to be transported to CLMCs from where processed milk is sent back to LMCs. (Adapted from the National Guidelines on Lactation Management Centres in Public Health Facilities [45])