It was the day time hour and no one around when someone left a newborn child on the road sidewalks and ran away.
While rushing towards his workplace, Sunil heard loud cries of a child. After persistently searching, to his surprise he found the same newborn there. He picked up the baby boy and tried to soothe him. The baby’s cries continued making Sunil restless as nobody came to take up the child for quite so long. Sunil decided to take the child with himself to his house. At home, he was in a fix as whom to hand over the child and that’s when he decided to call on Child Helpline 1098 for support.
CHILDLINE received a call from Dhenkanal district of Odisha when Sunil narrated the incident to the CHILDLINE Contact Officer on phone. In a short span, CHILDLINE Dhenkanal team reached Sunil’s place and took the child under their custody. Sunil was relieved as the baby was in safe hands now.
At first, CHILDLINE team took the baby to District Hospital for a medical check-up where he was kept for a day. Meanwhile, CHILDLINE team informed Child Welfare Committee (CWC) about the case over the phone and CWC member visited the child. With the order of CWC and CHILDLINE assistance, the next day child was shifted to a Shelter Home for better treatment and care.
At present, the baby boy is in good health and is taken care of well at the Sishu Bhawan- Cuttack- Shelter Home. CHILDLINE was successful in providing care and protection to the child who was otherwise abandoned and had no one to care. Children without parental care are at high risk of abuse, exploitation and neglect. It is the outcome of a concerned caller who remembered to call 1098 and reached out to CHILDLINE for a child in need.
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