Pune (Voice News Service):- KEM Hospital, Pune inaugurated advanced Nectar Human Milk Bank at the hands of Chief Guest and National Award Winning Playback Singer Savaniee Ravindrra along with Guest of Honour and former director at paediatric department at KEM Hospital, Pune Dr. Anand Pandit in presence of Saurabh Dhonarkar, Director Finolex Industries Ltd, Anil Whabi, Former Managing Director Finolex Industries Ltd , Dr Xerxes Coyaji, Medical Director KEM Hospital, Pune, Dr. Vishwanath Yemul, Medical Administrator KEM Hospital, Pune, Dr.Umesh Vaidya , HoD Neonatology along with lactation consultants Dr. Janvi Shah and Dr.Rani Balgude and staff members .The advanced Nectar Human Milk Bank has been established with support from Finolex Industries and Mukul Madhav Foundation .
The milk bank with enhanced capacity will help babies at the NICU at KEM Hospital as well as other hospitals. The operations include collection of milk from mother donors, testing, pasteurization, storage and dispensing when required.
Playback Singer Savaniee Ravindrra expressed happiness on the launch of the upgraded milk bank and sung a part of evergreen classic hindi song ‘ Tu Kitni Aacchi Hein’ reflecting mother -child relationship.
Dr. Anand Pandit, former director at paediatric department at KEM Hospital was instrumental in setting up NICU at the hospital in 1980 and recalled earlier days and said that it is a matter of pride to see the NICU grow up in a wonderful system.
Dr.Umesh Vaidya, HoD Neonatology Department, KEM Hospital , Pune said that the milk bank helps give optimal nutrition to pre term babies and helps save many lives. The advanced and upgraded version of the Milk Bank has enhanced capacity and state of the art equipment .
Mr. Dhanorkar expressed his gratitude to KEM hospital for giving such noble opportunity to serve people from our association from last 24 years. He assured that Finolex & MMF will always be there with KEM to provide state of art medical care at affordable prices for the masses
The Nectar Human Milk Bank was started at KEM Hospital in 2018 and has been a strong support for our NICU saving many lives. Dr Umesh Vaidya added that the upgraded human milk bank is a part of our vision to provide state of the art services to patients at reasonable costs. We thank Mukul Madhav Foundation for partnering with us and providing support in this endeavour.
