Hospital banks on milk donations

Though it received 240 liters of breast milk in one year, China's second breast milk bank, in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, has far from enough to feed hospitalized premature and sick babies.

The breast milk bank, established at the Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital in August 2013, has received 205 donors.

"We have about 800 milliliters of milk at our disposal every day," said Zhou Juan, a nurse at the milk bank. "But, generally, we have more than 10 sick babies who need to be fed with breast milk. A newborn needs to have eight meals a day, sometimes several milliliters, sometimes more than 40."