CKUK Baby Abandonion Number Growing

During the first ten months of this year, 38 babies have been abandoned at the University Clinical Centre in Kosovo. Meanwhile, 26 of them have joined one or two biological parents, following numerous conversations between parents and health workers, but also psychologists.

Twelve babies were left in the Neonatology Clinic, out of ten were provided a new <x0 house” to live through a program of the Ministry of Labour and Social Management, and two babies are still at KKUK.

In the absence of a mother, infants are given their first hug after abandoning, nurse Judge Feyzullahu, who now has been working for 34 years in the abandoned children's department.

She tells Radio Free Europe that sometimes mothers who decide to abandon their babies do not want to see them. So their first contact is with nurses, which is a special yet painful experience.

I love these babies. I have spiritual relationships with them. First contact is with us, nurses. We wash them, we clean them, we feed them, we love them. When they leave the clinic, we get very upset because we're getting emotionally attached to these kids. I also feel compassion for them because in most cases, mothers who abandon them do not want to see at all”, Fejzulah said.

Gevdet Goynovci, director of the Neonatology Clinic, which operates within the Kosovo University Clinical Centre, said that there are currently two abandoned babies, who are under staff care, while others have been sent to the social welfare department, as well as 26 others who have already joined one or both biological parents.