Baby Hatch :

Creating a hatch without a catch

Baby Hatch
-anonymously drop off their
newly born children if they do not
wish to care for them
  407 babies were abandoned between 2005 and 2009
 24 cases up to the end of April 2010.
 The launching of the first baby hatch on 29th May
2010 - Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, said that the
Minister of Women, Family and Community
Development

Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil

  The baby hatch is managed by OrphanCARE

 7 babies in OrphanCARE’s care

 a bungalow situated in residential Kampung Tunku,PJ
 a room measuring one square metre.
 equipped with a bed, an air-conditioner, a lamp and a
sensor that sounds an alarm in the caretaker’s room
upstairs whenever a baby is placed in it.

Datuk Adnan Mohd Tahir,

President OrphanCARE
 T h e
P r o c e d u r e s
Baby is deposited to the baby hatch

Inform the Social Welfare Department

Send the baby for a check-up

If it is left without a signed consent form- lodge a

police report

The baby is passed to the approved parent

H o w t h e y d o i t ?

German
y

Japan
Baby Hatch in Germany : Brief Overview

 have been used since 2000

  sixty per cent of the users return to take back their babies
after having second thoughts.
 the hatches have remained controversial since their
inception and they have their detractors.
 experts say -  the number of abandoned infants has not
actually gone down
Baby Hatch in Japan : Brief Overview

 started the system in 2oo7

  offer for adoption after an eight
week period during which birth
parents can change their minds
 faced many problem – some
parents abandoned their
handicap babies there.
 Resolution

 Stop the baby hatch program

 Start a new program to educate or recover or
to prevent pre marital pregnant.
 Start a new program for poor parents that
cannot afford to raise their children