Firefighters
in eastern China have rescued an abandoned newborn baby boy lodged in a sewage
pipe. The infant was stuck in a pipe directly beneath a
toilet commode, state television reported, in a case, which has sparked anger
on social media sites. There are
frequent reports in Chinese media of babies being abandoned, often shortly
after birth. In the latest case the infant was found in the sewage pipe in a
residential building in Jinhua in the wealthy coastal province of Zhejiang.
Firefighters
had to remove the pipe and take it to a nearby hospital, where doctors
carefully cut around it to rescue the baby boy inside, the report said.
His
arms had been pinned to his side, and when the confines of the pipe had been
delicately prised away, he let out a long wail - much to the relief of doctors
who were battling against the clock to rescue him.
His
eyes, face and body were covered in the filth of the pipe.
The
child is in a stable condition and the police are looking for his parents,
state television added.
The
Associated Press said the child had been named Baby No 59 from the number of
his incubator, the Guardian reported.
A
number of visitors have donated nappies, baby clothes and powdered milk to the
hospital to help the little boy, the news agency added.
The
case has been widely discussed on China's Twitter-like service Sina Weibo due
to the graphic nature of the footage, with calls for the parents to be severely
punished.
'The
parents who did this have hearts even filthier than that sewage pipe,' wrote
one user.
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