It said the baby boy named Raud Abdul Malik has been in hospital in Baish in the southern Jazan province since he was born.
“The Ministry of Social Affairs has refused to take the child into the orphanage or to give him to any family on the grounds that such a step would be against the rules,” said Ahmad Al-Bahkali, director of the NSHR in Jazan. “The child secludes himself from others. You will not know whether to talk to him in Filipino, Hindi or Arabic as he has a Filipino nurse in the morning, an Indian one in the evening and a Saudi nurse in the afternoon.”
Al-Bahkali warned that the child's long stay in hospital might expose him to all kinds of contagious diseases and said he must be taken out as soon as possible.
“Our urgent need now is convince the Ministry of Social Affairs to accept him,” he said. “After that we will see what is to be done,” he added.
On the other hand, Al-Bahkali told Arab News that the NSHR was still following up the case of Turki, the two-year-old child whose death was suspected to be of family abuse.
The child was born to an Indonesian housemaid following an affair with a Saudi. The mother was deported and the father jailed for one year, while the father's family was given custody of the child.
