Baby abandoned in Cotabato City cemetery alive, healthy
Local News • 16:57 PM Fri Aug 25, 2017
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By:
Cynthia Lumugda/Edwin Fernandez
The baby girl recovered from city cemetery shortly before she was rushed by police to a hospital. (DXMS Radyo Bida)
COTABATO CITY –
A newly born baby abandoned at the city’s public cemetery on Thursday dawn is
alive and healthy, a city official said.
Aniceto
Rasalan, secretary to Mayor Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi, said the baby girl is now
under the care of city DSWD personnel while her mother, who is mentally
different, is confined at a government hospital.
Rasalan said
the mother has been under the care of city social welfare office for the past
four months. He said efforts are underway to local the woman’s relatives for
she is not a resident of the city.
At past 5 a.m.
Thursday, pedicab driver Neil Labandia and Haroun Kusain, village watchman of
Barangay Rosary Heights 5 heard a baby crying in the middle of tombs.
Seeing the
bloodied baby, the two alerted police officers of Police Station 2. Senior Inspector Leonardo Enggay, station
chief, directed PO1 Reynan Mayo to check the report.
Mayo picked
the baby, with her umbilical cord uncut, and rushed her to the hospital.
Rasalan said efforts
are underway to locate the mother’s relatives.