Philippine officials are searching for the mother of a newborn boy found in the bin of a toilet onboard a Gulf Air flight to Manila — the newborn was in good health after being found on a flight from Bahrain.
"The baby is now under our care," said Celia Yangco, an official of the Department of Social Welfare and Development. "We’ll look for his mother. We’re giving his mother a chance to come forward."
Airline cleaners found the tiny boy, who still had his umbilical cord attached, covered with blood and wrapped in tissue paper.
Radio stations in Manila were swamped with offers to adopt the boy, who officials have called George Francis, using the initials of Gulf Air’s airline code, but Yangco said the government wants to try to find the biological mother first.
"We have a process to follow before the baby is declared abandoned and set for adoption," Yangco told Reuters, adding state policy is to keep the family together
By David Wilkening
