The abandonment of newborns has increased significantly over the past few days in separate areas of the northern countryside of Aleppo, in the absence of specialized institutions to deal with these cases.
The scene of throwing newborns on the streets and roads is no longer unlikely in northwestern Syria, where people from Bazaa village in the countryside of Al-Bab city, east of Aleppo, found on the first day of Eid Al-Fitr a newborn girl, a few days old, was dumped on the edge of a farmland.
This is the second incident of its kind recorded in the northern countryside of Aleppo since the beginning of May, as some families had previously found another newborn child in the town of Marea in the northern Aleppo .province
During the past two years, the phenomenon of throwing newborns on the roadsides and in front of mosques, hospitals and abandoned buildings has spread in northern Syria and the regime-held areas. Many of these infants were found and placed in cardboard boxes, travel bags, or In landfills.
Many social workers attribute the reasons for the increase in this phenomenon to the spread of poverty and ignorance, and the difficult economic conditions that the Syrian family suffers from, in addition to early marriage and illegal relations, which leads the mother to abandon and throw the child.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the abandonment of new-born babies has become more prevalent during the years of fighting and conflict in different parts of Syria.
Cases of child abandonment in the streets have become familiar to many people, the Britain-based monitoring added.
Northern Syria lacks the existence of specialized social institutions that deal with and document such cases, so the fate of newborns who are found in such cases depends either on the presence of one of the families that accepts their sponsorship and upbringing, or through their transfer to one of the orphan care centers in the region.
Zaman Al Wasl
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