Firefighters in eastern China have rescued an abandoned newborn baby boy lodged in a sewage pipe. The infant was stuck in a pipe directly beneath a toilet commode, state television reported, in a case which has sparked anger on social media sites. There are frequent reports in Chinese media of babies being abandoned, often shortly after birth.
In the latest case the infant was found in the sewage pipe
in a residential building in Jinhua in the wealthy coastal province of Zhejiang
on Saturday afternoon. The harrowing discovery came after residents reported
the sound of a baby crying, state television said late on Monday. The pipe was
just four inches wide in diameter the China Daily newspaper said. Firefighters
had to remove the pipe and take it to a nearby hospital, where doctors
carefully cut around it to rescue the baby boy inside, the report said.
His arms had been pinned to his side, and when the confines
of the pipe had been delicately prised away, he let out a long wail - much to
the relief of doctors who were battling against the clock to rescue him. His
eyes, face and body were covered in the filth of the pipe. The child is in a
stable condition and the police are looking for his parents, state television
added. The Associated Press said the child had been named Baby No 59 from the
number of his incubator, the Guardian reported. A number of visitors have
donated nappies, baby clothes and powdered milk to the hospital to help the little
boy, the news agency added. The case has been widely discussed on China's
Twitter-like service Sina Weibo due to the graphic nature of the footage, with
calls for the parents to be severely punished. 'The parents who did this have
hearts even filthier than that sewage pipe,' wrote one user.
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