Bizman shares gift of life to Kapampangan mothers
With his aim to give back to the com munity, Kapampangan businessman He noted that operations Jess Nicdao, through the Rotary Club of of the facility Western Pampanga, recently donated the will be handled by first human milk bank in Pampanga. JBLRMH staff who
Located at the Jose i es. will soon undergo B. Lingad Regional He said that the proper training in the Memorial Hospital donated milk bank is United Kingdom. (JBLRMH) in the City fully equipped with “We have a memorandum of San Fernando, the imported equipment, of agreement P4.5-million milk including a human with the JBLRMH, bank is the first human milk pasteurizer and that they will be in milk bank to be storage made in England. charge of manning operated by the local the facility. We will government unit “This facility send some of their h er e. brings up our community-based staff to UK next
Nicdao noted that month to train. That’s the project was particularly breastfeeding advocacy. also funded by the significant to Mothers will Rotary,” he said. him and his organization have the chance to He added that they as they are committed save lives and encourage donated the human to extend help other mothers milk bank to the said through quality not to rely on ‘am hospital as it is the health programs especially ng kanin’ and powdered biggest governmentowned for mothers milk as they are hospital north and their children. not as nutritious as of Manila.
“We pioneered this mother’s milk,” he For her part, project because we sai d . JBLRMH Human Milk believe that if you do Moreover, Nicdao Bank Supervisor not have a healthy also highlighted that Alma Canlas, extended child, you do not this facility will also her gratitude have a healthy individual help poor but deserving for the said donation. in the future,” mothers. “We are truly grateful he said. “According to our to our partners in
“And breastfeeding research, normally, putting up this facility. is one of the ways to Filipino families consume Breastfeeding is provide infants a a lowest of one of our advocacies healthy mind and P4,000 per month for and with this milk body. Unfortunately, commercial milks bank, we can save while a lot of mothers bought in drugstores more infants and provide produce excess and supermarkets. them adequate milk, there are also So, how can a low income nourishment. Thank many mothers who family afford you, Sir Jess Nicdao do not produce milk this much for their and the whole Rotary at all,” he added. baby’s milk supply? Club of Western
Nicdao furthered This facility is the Pampanga for making that the human milk solution for them, as this human milk bank bank is the solution this is actually intended possible at Jose B. for the mothers experiencing for our less Lingad Regional Memorial privileged Hospital,” she breastfeeding difficult kababayans,” he emphasized. sai d.