'A case for more baby hatches'
2010/08/19
By Ili Liyana Mokhtar and Daniel Bariga
news@nst.com.my
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KUALA LUMPUR: OrphanCARE, the administrator of the nation's first baby hatch, is urging non-governmental organisations, hospitals and clinics to set up baby hatches in view of the increase of baby dumping cases.
Its president, Datuk Adnan Mohd Tahir, said yesterday the centre had saved seven babies, six of whom had been adopted in the past two months.
The seventh baby was dropped of yesterday by a rape victim.
Adnan said the mother of the week-old baby was an 18-year-old student who was raped by a 25-year-old man.
"The baby boy will be put up for adoption once we get the documentation done. If we can save seven babies, just think how many more can be saved if there are 10 centres around the Klang Valley."
The six babies, comprising two girls and four boys, were dropped of at the hatch anonymously.
"All of them were newborn except for an 11-month-old, which was a unique case as the guardian could not take care of the baby any more due to poor health," said Adnan.
He said NGOs, hospitals and clinics in other states should set up baby hatches at strategic locations.
"Some young mothers do not have the means or are not in the right condition to travel here to drop of the babies. So, we need more baby hatches to save more lives."
Adnan said OrphanCARE was helping two hospitals in the Klang Valley to set up baby hatches but declined to name them.
"We would like other hospitals and clinics to approach us as well. No baby should be left to die in deplorable conditions just because its mother does not know where to turn to."
The organisation is also looking to working with universities and colleges in several awareness programmes in October.
"Many are unaware of our existence and we are working hard to address that."
OrphanCARE has 400 parents waiting to adopt babies.
The baby hatch was launched on May 29 by Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil.
Couples or mothers who are unable to care for their babies can drop them at the centre, which has a strict policy in safeguarding the identity of the parents to protect them from being persecuted or prosecuted.
The setting-up caused a storm of protest with some quarters arguing that the baby hatch would encourage premarital sex.
Others, meanwhile, lauded the move which they said would help cut down the rising number of abandoned babies in the country.
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