Press Date: 01/26/2010

Mother's Milk Bank of Ohio shipping 500 ounces to U.S. Navy hospital ship in Haiti

What: The Mother's Milk Bank of Ohio (a service of Grant Medical Center) will be shipping 500 ounces of donated mother's milk to the USNS Comfort, a US Navy hospital ship stationed off the coast of Haiti.

Medical personnel onboard the Comfort had issued a request for donated mother's milk for premature infants and at-risk mothers. Tomorrow's shipment of donated milk will be the first to reach the Comfort.

Quick International Courier will pack the milk in dry ice at the Milk Bank and transport it to Port Columbus International Airport where it will be loaded onto a Southwest Airlines flight bound for Ft. Lauderdale. From there, it will be transported via charter plane and then by helicopter to the Comfort.

When:  Mother's milk packing and pick-up
            Wednesday, January 27, 2010
             8 a.m.

Where: Mother's Milk Bank of Ohio
            Victorian Village Health Center basement
           1132 Hunter Avenue (43201)

Who:     Available for interview:
             * Craig W. Anderson, MD, medical director, Mother's Milk Bank of Ohio
             * Amanda Nickerson, executive director, International Breast Milk Project
             * Georgia Morrow, RN, IBCLC, Lactation Education Consultant, Mother's Milk Bank of Ohio

For more information, contact Colin Yoder at (614) 565-0619.