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Baby Flushed Down the Toilet: Healthy New Born Rescued from Plumbing System in China (Video)
Kathleen Lees
First Posted: May 28, 2013 12:45 PM EDT
Chinese officials rescued a newborn baby from a four-inch wide drainpipe after apparently being flushed down the toilet.
The incident, which occurred Saturday in China's Zhejiang province on Saturday, had firefighters on the scene after residents complained of the baby's cries from the plumbing system of the apartment complex in which the baby was found.
Though the pipe was just around 10cm in diameter, rescuers were unable to remove the child at the scene, and thus, ended up sawing through the sewage system to remove a section and take it to the hospital.
The boy, who health officials believe to be just a few days old, is now in safe and stable conditions after doctors reportedly used piers to carefully break apart the tube in was inside of. He has been named Baby No 59 after the number of hospital incubator he is recovering in, according to The Associated Press.
Footage below from a China shows scenes from the dramatic rescue, which brought a number of guests to the hospital with food, blankets and other products for the abandoend child, according to reports.
China's strict family planning rules only allow one child per family, which was a law put into place back in 1982 to prevent higher population growths.
Though this has helped curb the population, many families break the law to incur huge fines or kill their child in order to stay within the law.
Want to see the footage of the child being rescued? Check out this video, courtesy of YouTube.
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First Posted: May 28, 2013 12:45 PM EDT
Chinese officials rescued a newborn baby from a four-inch wide drainpipe after apparently being flushed down the toilet.
The incident, which occurred Saturday in China's Zhejiang province on Saturday, had firefighters on the scene after residents complained of the baby's cries from the plumbing system of the apartment complex in which the baby was found.
Though the pipe was just around 10cm in diameter, rescuers were unable to remove the child at the scene, and thus, ended up sawing through the sewage system to remove a section and take it to the hospital.
The boy, who health officials believe to be just a few days old, is now in safe and stable conditions after doctors reportedly used piers to carefully break apart the tube in was inside of. He has been named Baby No 59 after the number of hospital incubator he is recovering in, according to The Associated Press.
Footage below from a China shows scenes from the dramatic rescue, which brought a number of guests to the hospital with food, blankets and other products for the abandoend child, according to reports.
China's strict family planning rules only allow one child per family, which was a law put into place back in 1982 to prevent higher population growths.
Though this has helped curb the population, many families break the law to incur huge fines or kill their child in order to stay within the law.
Want to see the footage of the child being rescued? Check out this video, courtesy of YouTube.
See Now: NASA's Juno Spacecraft's Rendezvous With Jupiter's Mammoth Cyclone