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Authorities at the Kumasi Children’s Home have decried the rate at which infants and toddlers are abandoned.
The home records more than five new cases monthly with infants aged between one and two months.
According to caretakers at the facility, the practice was rampant.
Most of these parents, who abandon the children, could not be located.
Madam Victoria Asugnya, supervisor at the Kumasi Children’s Home, revealed that most of the abandoned children were those with special needs.
She said that abandoning children was worrying because the home only relies on artificial feed rather than giving them with breast milk.
She added that children who were abandoned were denied a direct care that every child needed in the society.
Madam Asugnya indicated that the institutional setting was not the best option for bringing up children.
“So I would advise anybody not to abandon the child however difficult it is,” she appealed.
Fourteen year old Paul, one of such abandoned children at the facility, has battled with brain tumor for four years.
According to caretakers, Paul’s parents abandoned him because of his current condition.
He was reported to have succeeded a first surgery out of the three he had to undergo.
Madam Asugnya said that they had made several failed attempts to fund Paul’s surgery until a volunteer offered to pay for the first surgery.
She also disclosed that other children lived with similar conditions as Paul’s.
The caretakers appealed to the general public to support the home in cash, kind and volunteer work.
