COVID-19 Warriors: Mothers Donate Breast Milk For Infant Of Infected Patient

Hong Kong: While the pandemic is bringing new COVID warriors to the fore, a group in Hong Kong city  was found contributing to the most selfless cause of saving an infant’s life.

Some mothers teamed up with Hong Kong Breastfeeding, a social support group to donate breast milk for a four-month girl child of a COVID-19 patient Catherine Kosasih of Hong Kong city. Catherine, a mother of two, a 21-month-old and a four-month-old, was diagnosed with COVID-19. She was immediately shifted to an isolation centre and her husband and daughters were quarantined.

Doctors informed the 33-year old mother that she won’t be allowed to breastfeed her child while she undergoing treatment for the milk could pass on the medication to her baby. The couple was still trying to deal with the situation when they discovered that their youngest child was allergic to artificial breast milk substitute.

It was then that Catherine called up Gemma MacFarlane, the founder of Hong Kong Breastfeeding.

MacFarlane made an SOS call for online donation of breast milk and within a day, the distressed couple was stashed with more than 15 litres of breast milk donated by several mothers, who came in for support in the difficult times, enough to last two weeks for a four-year old child.