Operation Status of the Mutual Aid Human Milk Bank for Preterm Infants and Data Analysis

Figures & data

Table 1 Clinical Signs of the Donors

Number of Donations	Person-Time
≤ 3 times	248
3–9 times	6015
≥ 10 times	21
Premature or full-term
Preterm puerpera	1334
Full-term puerpera	30
Time of first donation (after delivery)
≤ 1 week	139
1 week–1 month (including 1 month)	805
1 month–2 months (including 2 months)	317
2 month–3 months (including 3 months)	94
> 3 months	9
Delivery mode
Normal delivery	429
Caesarean	935
Parity
Primipara	930
Pluripara	434
Education background
Master’s degree and above	80
Bachelor’s degree	523
Junior college and below	761

Table 2 Duration of Breast Donation Therapy for Recipients

Duration of Breast Donation	Person-Time
≤ 15 days	1898
15–30 days	241
≥ 30 days	103

Table 3 Quality of Donated Human Milk in the Human Milk Bank and Its Usage from 2018 to 2021

	Total Milk Donation (L)	Donors	Eligible Milk Donation (L)	Usage (L)	Recipients
2018	824.00	493	552.08	452.80	544
2019	722.37	369	592.34	534.35	527
2020	646.45	248	536.55	402.16	467
2021	876.35	254	753.66	730.24	705
Total	3069.17	1364	2434.63	2119.55	2242

Table 4 Cost Allocation Among Different Cost Centers of the Human Milk Bank from 2018 to 2021

	Total Cost/(%)
Recruiting	90,000(5.03)
Collection	116,432(6.50)
Processing & Storage	979,628(54.70)
Distribution	604,812(33.77)
Total	1,790,872(100)

Table 5 Breakdown of Reimbursement for the Human Milk Bank from 2018 to 2021

	Annual Cumulative Number of Daily Recipients	Total Annual Cost of Human Milk Disposal
2018	4653	93,060
2019	4814	96,280
2020	4660	233,000
2021	8609	430,450
Total	22,736	852,790

Notes: Human milk disposal cost from 2018 to 2019 was RMB 20 /time, which increased to RMB 50 /time in 2020.

Figure 1 Incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants from 2018 to 2021.