It seems as if a new baby arrives every week. On Thursday another little boy arrived - he is 5 months old and had been at the Hospital since his birth when his mother abandoned him.
When he arrived he was smiling, but once he was put into a bath, he started screaming. It seems that he had never been bathed before – the hospitals just wash the babies with a face cloth in their beds, and not too well it seems – he was rather grubby. He is also underweight – he only weighs 4.8kg at 5 months.
I’m afraid that the care of the children that are suspected of being HIV+ and are abandoned at the hospital at birth, are not properly looked after. We think the nursing staff reckons that, if they are HIV+, they are going to die anyway so why waste food on them or give them extra care. What frustrates us, is that he was left in the hospital for 5 months before anyone thought to get the Welfare to try and find a home for him.
We are going to test him for HIV and, if he is negative, he will be adopted – the Welfare already have parents lined up for him.
Update on mumps and chicken pox:
The quarantine has been partially lifted – the houses are all mixing again and we take them out for shopping but we’re holding off on sending them back to Sunday School and Bible group for another week because of the close proximity to the other children there.
When he arrived he was smiling, but once he was put into a bath, he started screaming. It seems that he had never been bathed before – the hospitals just wash the babies with a face cloth in their beds, and not too well it seems – he was rather grubby. He is also underweight – he only weighs 4.8kg at 5 months.
I’m afraid that the care of the children that are suspected of being HIV+ and are abandoned at the hospital at birth, are not properly looked after. We think the nursing staff reckons that, if they are HIV+, they are going to die anyway so why waste food on them or give them extra care. What frustrates us, is that he was left in the hospital for 5 months before anyone thought to get the Welfare to try and find a home for him.
We are going to test him for HIV and, if he is negative, he will be adopted – the Welfare already have parents lined up for him.
Update on mumps and chicken pox:
The quarantine has been partially lifted – the houses are all mixing again and we take them out for shopping but we’re holding off on sending them back to Sunday School and Bible group for another week because of the close proximity to the other children there.
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i can get so upset if i read about the hospitals that don't take care properly of the babies with HIV, even if the stay HIV+, they still don't die anyway, they might have a good live, like the lambanokids hey?
If i just think of our little Jona that was also in the hospital for a few weeks after birth before he went to lambano...
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