Hospital to open drop-off for abandoned babies

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A Vancouver hospital plans to offer a safe haven for troubled mothers who want to abandon their newborn babies anonymously.

According to St. Paul's Hospital staff, a so-called angel's cradle will be set up in a private area accessible from just outside the entrance of the downtown hospital's emergency room on Burrard Street, as well as from inside the emergency room itself.

The facility, which opens on Monday, will allow a mother to put a baby in the bassinet and leave before hospital staff are notified by an alarm with a 30-second delay, according to a statement released by the hospital on Thursday morning.

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