Yeoh listed the wide-ranging options available to those unable to care for their newborn, such as
baby hatch services at the KPJ Specialist Hospitals in Damansara, Tawakal, Ipoh, Kuantan, Seremban, Penang, Johor, and Kelantan, along with orphan care centres and adoption services under the ministry.
FICTION p20 popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, a
baby hatch was a place where people could bring newborns and abandon them anonymously.
LAURA is an orphan, abandoned as a baby and handed anonymously through the
baby hatch to an orphanage in Venice.
The
baby hatch in Guangzhou, in the southern province of Guangdong, was suspended on Sunday after the city's welfare home exceeded its capacity to handle new arrivals.
'
Baby Hatch' used sometimes inappropriately, expert panel says
For the first time ever, following the example of Germany, Pakistan, and Japan, a
baby hatch was opened by the Malaysian NGO Orphan CARE in February 2010.
In another strategy to combat baby-dumping, Malaysia in May had introduced the nation's first "
baby hatch" centre to rescue unwanted newborns.
Plans are also being put in place for a
baby hatch to take on the likes of the BMW 1-Series.
21, a second baby was left in the '
baby hatch,' or 'baby box' at the Children's Clinical University Hospital, said hospital representative Romena Namniece, reports LETA.
WITH its mighty three - litre engine, BMW's
baby hatch certainly packs a grown-up punch.
KUMAMOTO, Japan - A total of 17 infants were left anonymously at Japan's first ''
baby hatch'' at a Kumamoto hospital between its opening on May 10 last year and March 31 this year, a city official said Tuesday.
A HOT version of Renault's latest
baby hatch will go on sale in the autumn.