You have to have water in your veins to not be moved by this baby tank installed in a street in a marginal neighborhood of Rome.
It is located at the gates of the Casilino Polyclinic. It looks like a telephone booth, but with the difference that the sign with the photo of a baby and the phrase "Do not leave it, trust us" in several languages indicates that there you can leave the unwanted newborn. Tremendous, right?
Conceived with the same idea as the Baby Box, they are interiors with a cradle inside with a heat and weight sensor where the mother can deposit the baby in absolute anonymity.
There is a camera that points to the crib (in no case can you see who leaves the baby) connected to the hospital emergency department. If someone deposits a baby there, an alarm goes off so that an emergency team will pick it up.
On the one hand, it is a security for the survival of the baby that will be there to shelter and then someone will go to rescue it instead of being thrown in a garbage container or a sidewalk dying of cold.
On the other, I see that maybe such comfort facilitates the decision for some mothers.
Anyway, I think that whoever makes that desperate decision will leave the baby in one place or another. At least here they are given the option to do it in a more hygienic and safe way for the baby.
