5 minutes agoThe number of abandoned babies increased by 31 percent compared to the preceding year
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)For 31 percent, the number of abandoned babies compared with the previous year at the University Clinical Centre in Kosovo has increased. From January to October 2019, according to Neonatology Clinic data, 38 abandoned babies have been registered, or nine more than the same period last year. “share [...]
After a conversation with the social worker and the clinic staff, 23 babies were taken from the family under care, 12 have been treated as social cases, while two babies are currently in clinics. A baby because of her serious health condition has passed”, the director of Neonatology Clinic, Geevdet Goynovci, has announced to the newspaper.
The Neonatology clinic deals with all abandoned babies at the Obstetrical Clinic genecological, as well as those that can be abandoned in other facilities that are brought to the clinic by social workers and police. According to Director Gojnovci, this clinic treats abandoned babies from 0 to 28 days, Koha Ditore writes today.
During 2018, for the January-December period, Neonatology Clinic has treated 29 abandoned babies, with nine of them treated as social cases.
The most frequent reasons for abandoning infants are marital problems, economic conditions, extramarital ties”, he stressed.
And in the absence of a mother, these babies get their first hugs from Chief nurse Luce Jusuf, who was a 40-year-old job at the Neonatology Clinic. She has shown that caregivers working in this department create a very close bond and care about how to have their own children.
We grow up like a mother who cares about her child. Even at home, I traumatized these kids. They all love them from a distance. They are good and very loving children. These are children of love, but at the same time they are unwanted children”, Yusuf says.
