A newborn boy who was rescued from a toilet pipe in China has been released from hospital, the director of the facility said yesterday, five days after an ordeal that captured worldwide interest.
The child, from Jinhua in the eastern province of Zhejiang, and dubbed "Baby No 59" by nurses after the number of his incubator, become lodged in the pipe after his mother gave birth.
The boy "was picked up yesterday", said Wu Xinhong, chief of the Pujiang People's Hospital where he was treated. He did not specify who collected the baby, but said they were accompanied by police.
The boy will be cared for by his mother, grandparents and the man believed to be his father, China's state news agency Xinhua cited local officials as saying, adding that the man plans to contest his paternity.
Details of the case were not entirely clear, with the Jinhua Daily, a local newspaper, saying yesterday that police were still looking for the father.
The mother will not face prosecution as she did not drop the boy on purpose, police said.
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