Taguig City in Manila inked two agreements with key partners including Singapore's KKH and Temasek Foundation.
MANILA - Singapore’s KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital will leverage its own experience running a breast milk donation depot with 24-hour access to build up an existing breast milk bank for the city of Taguig in Manila.
The MOU was one of two pacts signed on the day, with the second being a partnership between Taguig City’s government, private health technology firm CareSpan Asia and Temasek Foundation, which provided a $2.12 million injection of funds. They were witnessed by Singapore’s Minister for Health Ong Ye Kung and Taguig City Mayor Lani Cayetano at the Grand Hyatt Manila.
MCHRI deputy director Fabian Yap noted that proper nutrition is the foundation of good health, and that “breast milk is the gold standard for infant nutrition”. He added that this involves not only collecting and storing human milk, but also “providing potentially customised donor milk, tailored to the specific age and growth needs of individuals”.
“We will work with Taguig’s ob-gyn teams and establish streamlined workflows – from the moment the woman discovers she is pregnant, through childbirth and into the postnatal period, she will receive coordinated, continuous care,” he added.
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