Kirk here with one old article and one new one about how the baby hatch in Kumamoto (Jikei Hospital) has been a model (to some extent at least) for similar efforts in other parts of the world. The older article (click on picture for link) includes the following sentence:
“About a dozen European countries, as well as China, Japan, Malaysia and South Korea already use similar systems.” This was as of 2015. There may be many more examples in the world now. But, both then and now, “Japan” can only be mentioned because of Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto. (Go Jikei Hospital! 😉 )
I was prompted to post about this today by the newer piece I came across on NPR (first link below, not the one linked to with the picture):
“Indiana is installing more baby boxes, where newborns can be anonymously surrendered”
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/indiana-baby-box-proposal-sparks-controversy-746686
