There is no surveillance camera overlooking the cordoned-off
“baby hatch” for abandoned infants attached to the Mangiagialli
clinic in central Milan, so no one knows exactly who left a tiny
four-pound baby boy named Mario there late last week. The
newborn was dressed in a brand-new blue sleeper, and his
caretaker had tucked a bottle of formula and a few changes of
clothing beside him before sliding him into the protected
incubator. Mario’s keeper then closed the gray plastic door and
walked away. A weight-sensor alarm in the incubator alerted
nurses at the Mangiagialli hospital, who then opened the hatch
from the other side and took the tiny infant to the neonatal
ward. Apart from a low birth weight, he was in perfect
condition, even though there is no way to find out anything
about his family history, including his ethnicity. Nurses then
changed the sheets in the incubator and reset the alarm so the
hatch would be ready for the next abandoned baby. Baby hatches
like the one in Milan are springing up all over