Baby box in Vinohrady: They found a baby boy abandoned in it
According to the photo and information Hess received from paramedics, the child was wrapped in a red towel and the umbilical cord was held in place by a string. “I named the boy Dan after the son of an important generous Prague donor, who was also the first person to learn about the little boy from me. And she was very happy,” Hess wrote.
he added that Dan is the second child placed in the Vinohrady baby box. The first was Sidonie last June.
The baby box at the Faculty Hospital of Královská Vinohrady has been operating since December 2019, when it was moved there from Prague’s Hloubětín. The Hloubětín baby box was the first in the Czech Republic, it started operating in 2005, due to the reconstruction of the castle in Hloubětín, it moved to Vinohrady.
There are eight dozen baby boxes in the Czech Republic, which are supposed to prevent threats to the health and lives of delayed children. When someone puts a child in it, the heating, ventilation is turned on as a slight delay, and an alarm is activated to alert the staff of the medical facility. The lockers are placed in such a way that people do not have to worry that someone will surprise them when putting the child away. But baby boxes also have critics who claim that they contradict some articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, such as the right to a name, identity, nationality and the right to know one’s parents.
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Author: Profimedia/ Babybox Prague 6