Infants and tiny toddlers were all smiles when Minister for Health and Family Welfare P. K. Sreemathy visited the State Council for Child Welfare last Tuesday. The institution is one of the many centers in India dedicated to protecting and taking care of abandoned and disabled babies. The minister rounded the nursery of young kids with disabilities. Until now, the issue regarding the adoption of these infants has not yet been resolved by the administrators of the welfare institution. The minister has also shown the babies who have recently been abandoned at the so-called
"Amma" electronic cradle. Since the cradle was set up in 2002, around 60 babies were found abandoned in it.
Before she left, the health and welfare minister said that the Indian government would take the necessary measures in order to improve facilities of the welfare center and to make it as one of the best institutions of its kinds. It must be noted that during the last 2 years, an administrator delegated by the government was put in charge of the
child welfare center. Ms. Sreemathy also talked with the rest of the staff of the Council.
