Comprehensive Lactation Management Centers and Lactation Management Units

Due to certain inescapable circumstances, the pre-term, low birth weight and sick babies admitted at health facilities are devoid of mother’s milk. There is a need to provide continuous supply of safe breast-milk to all babies admitted at health facilities for improved survival and wellbeing. Facility based lactation management by establishing Comprehensive Lactation Management Centre and Lactation Management Units is an effort to universalize the availability of breast-milk to all babies in addition to the efforts to promote natural breastfeeding by mothers.

Comprehensive Lactation Management Centre (CLMC) is an elaborate set up established for the purpose of collecting, screening, processing, storing and distributing donor human milk (DHM). CLMCs are established at Government Medical Colleges or District Hospitals with high delivery load and availability of newborn treatment units such as NICU/SNCUs. It serves as ancillary support to the baby friendly hospital practices on promoting and supporting breastfeeding and Kangaroo Mother Care

Lactation Management Centre (LMC) is a centre established in the health facility for the purpose of providing lactation support to all mothers within the health facility for collection, storage and dispensing of mother’s own breast milk for consumption by her baby. LMUs can be established at all sub-district hospitals and FRUs that meet the prerequisite criteria on assessment carried out by State/District Quality Assurance Committee