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Pakistani breast milk bank closes after Islamic clerics withdraw approval
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With his wife very sick and their premature son Ayan in hospital, the 52-year-old father had had to collect milk five or six times a day from different female relatives who were breastfeeding their own babies.
But the seminary has now withdrawn its fatwa of assent, saying it had new advice that the hospital would find it not only “difficult but almost impossible to adhere to the strict conditions” set down by the institution’s clerics.
“The objective of the doctors who wanted to set up the human milk bank may be in good faith, but we concur with Jamia Darul Uloom Karachi, and do not think it needs to be encouraged,” said Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi, chair of the Pakistan Ulema Council, though he refused to elaborate.
Dr Azra Pechuho, health minister for Sindh province said: “When there is a properly developed digital identification system in place in Pakistan, keeping a record of which child got milk from which woman is not difficult.”
Formula milk is not without danger, say doctors, in places where few adhere to safe practices of sterilising bottles and teats or are able to ensure the water used for mixing is clean.
“Mothers from lower socioeconomic groups often reduce the proportion of the milk powder to the water for it to last longer, to save the cost,” said Akram.
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