The Human Milk Bank was opened in November 2019 and since then, of 400 mothers who expressed the wish to donate breast milk, 143 have become donors.
To date 1,118 litres of breast milk have been collected, and 724 litres of pasteurized milk have been used for infant feeding, said the bank which celebrates its second anniversary on 15 November.
The bank provides milk for babies in hospitals in Zagreb, Split, Osijek, Rijeka and Slavonski Brod.
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