Baby hatch boy gets new home
PETALING JAYA: The baby boy abandoned at the baby hatch last week has been adopted.
“The adoptive couple was carefully selected from some 80 shortlisted eligible parents,” said OrphanCARE president Datuk Adnan Mohd.
The baby hatch, set up on May 29 by OrphanCARE, received its first baby on June 27 when an unmarried couple in their early 20s left the newborn there.
“The baby’s parents were counselled and they decided that the baby would be better off with OrphanCARE,” Adnan said in a statement yesterday, adding that the baby was released to the adoptive couple yesterday.
To maintain the confidentiality of both the biological and adoptive parents, no other information pertaining to the adoption and the baby would be released, he said.
Adnan said Welfare Department officers would make regular visits to the adoptive family to ensure the well-being of the baby.
The baby hatch, located at 6, Jalan SS1/24A, Kampung Tunku here, is run by OrphanCARE, a partner of the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry.
It is a non-profit organisation whose objective is to give orphans and abandoned babies the love, care and security of a family in line with its tagline “Every Child Needs a Family”.
With the establishment of the baby hatch, Adnan hoped there would be a reduction in the number of babies being dumped.
OrphanCARE’s aim is to discourage women, especially young unwed mothers, from abandoning their newborn and instead have them placed with caring parents.
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