Baby hatches help to prevent babies being abandoned in unsafe places, says NGO

IPOH: Baby hatches are set up in order to reduce the number of babies abandoned at unsafe places, says an expert from a non-governmental organisation after a Perak government official said too many hatches encouraged the abandonment of babies.

OrphanCare Foundation’s Advocacy and Communications manager Riza Alwi on Friday (July 24) said since 2010, the foundation had saved 420 babies, 252 of whom were adopted, 155 parented by their birth mothers, and 13 special cases referred to the Welfare Department.