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The Queensland Milk Bank is facing an unprecedented shortage of life-saving breast milk after an increase in demand for its services.

Doctor Pieter Koorts says the bank currently holds less than 100 litres, and the 85 litres pasteurised in the last fortnight will go quickly.

The milk bank provides supplies for about a dozen hospitals across the country, and fed fifty-one babies at the Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital last month.