People can place unwanted babies in the slot, close the door and walk away without being seen.
A silent alarm alerts a nurse to the foundling's presence. A baby girl left anonymously two months ago at a Hamburg clinic is well and living with her adoptive parents. They feel vindicated by the successful rescue of the program's first foundling. A silent alarm sounds, a camera watching the carrier turns on, and the baby is monitored until a nurse arrives. In Germany, the number of newborn babies found dumped in trash bins and cardboard boxes, left to die by desperate or disturbed mothers, has been growing.