The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) has proposed to establish special infant receiving centres at hospitals in all nine provinces, it was reported.
According to Daily Mirror, NCPA Chairman Udayakumara Amarasinghe said the proposed infant receiving centres will allow parents to hand over their infants without revealing their identity.
Addressing the media yesterday (13), Amarasinghe stated that the proposal pertaining to the infant receiving centres was drafted by the NCPA in 2021 in order to assist parents who are unable to bring up their newborns due to various reasons.
Stating that the proposal was submitted to the Cabinet in 2021, Amarasinghe stated that, however, the Cabinet Office had pointed out that the proposal must be presented through the Department of Probation and Child Care Services.
NCPA Chairman Udayakumara Amarasinghe pointed out that such infant-receiving centres were popular in India, adding that it was necessary to establish such centres with the recent increase in the abandonment of infants in Sri Lanka. (NewsWire)