VietNamNet Bridge – There are babies who are abandoned when they are not taken shape yet. Some are outcast immediately after birth. More and more babies are desolated like that by mothers who are workers at southern industrial zones.

Abortion has become popular among female workers at industrial zones. But, it is condemned that some women abandon their babies immediately after birth.

Nguyen Van Thanh, a guard of the Social Patronage Center of the southern province of Vinh Long, saw a basket with a newborn baby inside at the gate of the center at 3am, June 19 2011. He urgently brought the baby to the center’s health station for check-up and ran to the gate to search for the mother but he did not see anyone.

On January 12, 2011, a 23-year-old worker delivered a boy of 3 kilos at the Thuan An Polyclinic in the southern province of Binh Duong. However, the mother disappeared several hours later, leaving her pretty baby.

Some babies were found at dumping grounds, with aunts swarming all over the bodies. “If rubbish collectors did not timely pick up the babies, they would have been dead by aunts,” said Phan Van Bay, deputy director of the Que Huong Humanity Center in Di An district, Binh Duong province, about abandoned kids that are living at the center.

This humanity center is located near many industrial zones like Song Than 1, Song Than 2, Dong An, Binh Chuan. The center is taking care of many babies who are abandoned by their mothers, who are workers at nearby industrial zones.

Local residents along Ba Bo Canal in Thu Duc district, HCM City, have found corpses of inborn babies along the canal. They guessed that these are babies of workers in Song Than and Di An industrial zones, which are located in the canal upstreams.

A rubbish collect in Go Vap district, HCM City told VietNamNet that he has detected dead inborn babies in dustbins or at dumping grounds. Once he collected waste at a street having many boarding-houses of workers, he discovered a baby with the umbilical cord in a cloth bundle.

But why this happens?

Vo Thi Thu Ha, Chairwoman of the Women’s Union of Phu Quoi commune, Long Ho district of Vinh Long province, said: “Our commune does not have entertainment centers while there are many workers here. Lack of entertainment services, living far from home, workers have to seek someone to share. They have sex but do not apply safe sex methods. As a result, the number of abandoned children is on the rise”.

Female workers at a seafood processing factory in Tan Phu district, HCM City told People’s Police Newspaper that they wanted to read newspapers but they could not buy them. They wanted to watch movies, music shows, but free movies and music only serve people in the remote areas, not workers.

Tuan, a printing worker, said: “If it is possible, let’s provide us with free books, newspapers, condoms and contraceptive devices. We cannot afford to buy them.”

Man Chi