This ill-fated balance initially resulted mainly in the acceptance of abandoned children being kept in health institutions to prevent their possible death at home. Enquiries into the deaths in hospitals were (obviously) less terrifying for medical staff in such institutions than that in the territory, where cases were attributed to negligence on the part of medical staff, and resulted in the punishment of physicians.
This resulted in a trend to forcibly send children from the territory to hospitals for minor afflictions.
The staff responsible for announcing the arrival of the child from the hospital to the territory recalls the refusal of medical staff to accept the child if its family did not offer sufficient guarantees for risk-free care of the child.
The doubling of the number of births in a short period of time (for which the medical infrastructure was unprepared) theoretically also meant a doubling in the number of “normally” abandoned children, to which were added other problems that come with the increase of the number of such children. The management of these problems by the medical staff, in the complete absence of social welfare services, generated a series of anomalies which, perpetuated over the years, have taken a semblance of “normality” and “acceptability”.