Telangana to set up new cradles in Nagarkurnool hospitals

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Updated: Sep 20, 2020, 11:37 IST

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Five new ‘Ooyala’ or (cradles) are being set up in government hospitals at Nagarkurnool for dropping unwanted babies. The scheme will be ijmplemented in secrecy, Nagarkurnool collector L Sharman has said.

Telangana to set up new cradles in Nagarkurnool hospitals

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HYDERABAD: Five new ‘Ooyala’ or (cradles) are being set up in government hospitals at Nagarkurnool for dropping unwanted babies. The scheme will be ijmplemented in secrecy, Nagarkurnool collector L Sharman has said.
The idea behind setting up new cradles is to prevent parents from dumping their newborn in bushes, throwing them in nalas or killing them. Parents often tend to take these steps if it is an unwanted pregnancy or because the baby is a female and if the baby was born out of wedlock .

A meeting of officials was held on Thursday on implementing the ‘Ooyala’ scheme.
In a recent incident, a male baby was thrown in the bushes in Nagulagudi, Vikarabad by the mother. Locals who noticed the baby alerted the police and officials on the chidline no. 1098. Childline specialist Dr Shanthappa examined the newborn baby, which weighed only 1.8 kg. The baby was shifted to the district hospital at Tandur for treatment on Wednesday.
The district administration has said that it will take responsibility to take care of the babies and that mothers should not kill their unwanted babies or throw them. After introducing the programme on an experimental basis, it will be extended to other government hospitals too.

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Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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