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Moms donate breast milk

Five mothers donated breast milk to Peking Union Medical College Hospital, at the launch ceremony of its first milk bank recently. Li Zhenghong, deputy director of the hospital's pediatrics department, said the event aimed to find out how breast milk could help premature and seriously ill infants. A report from the hospital said about 60 percent of pregnant women chose breastfeeding and about 90 percent were willing to donate milk.

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