Plan to set up baby hatch in Osaka

Plan to set up baby hatch in Osaka

Hiroyasu Chiyomatsu, mayor of Izumisano in Osaka Prefecture, explains the policy of setting up a baby hatch that enables parents to anonymously leave infants they are unable to care for, on May 29, 2025, at the city office. The western Japan city government said it plans to launch a baby hatch and a "confidential birth" system that allows women to give birth without revealing their identities except to the hospital, by the end of fiscal 2026 in cooperation with a local medical institution.

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