Japan's baby hatch hospital offers mothers 'last resort'

For 15 years, the clinic has been the only place in Japan a child can be anonymously and safely abandoned.

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A soft toy is seen in a nursery room for newborn babies at Jikei hospital in Kumamoto. (AFP)
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When the alarm sounds at Jikei hospital in southern Japan, nurses race down a spiral staircase. Their mission: to rescue an infant left in the country's only baby hatch.

For 15

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