The Gauteng Health Department said on
Wednesday that the number of babies abandoned in Gauteng
Department spokesperson Simon Zwane said
there are currently 11 babies in different hospitals in the province waiting to
be claimed and in 2012 there were only 16 babies abandoned in the Tshwane
health district.
"We
have embarked on education campaign to educate them about abortion and foster
parenting options that are available to them if they ever unwanted
pregnancies,” Zwane said
He concluded by saying in the past the
number of children that were born and abandoned are mostly HIV positive with
the strength of HIV programmes more children are born without HIV.
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