Dutch couple in Ktm seeking adopted son’s biological parents

A Dutch couple is in Kathmandu looking for the biological parents of their eight-year-old boy whom they adopted here in Nepal and then took to Holland, Kantipur Daily reported.

They were compelled to come to Kathmandu for this seemingly unusual search after their adopted child started asking about his original parents.

“After Sangam started asking us about his parents, we came here looking for them,” the Dutch couple told Kantipur.

The Dutch couple had adopted the boy when he was just 7 months old in the year 2000 from Nepal Children’s Organziation (NCO), an orphanage at Naxal in Kathmandu, and then took him with them to Holland.

Healthy, bright and good in studies, the Dutch couple named their newly adopted child from Nepal Sangam Mens Saint. He is currently studying in standard 5 in a school in Rotterdam city, Holland.

The Dutch couple was in Kathmandu a year ago to show Sangam his birthplace. But this time they are here without Sangam probably because they don’t want their adopted child to go through the trouble of looking for his original parents.

The Dutch couple found that Sangam was born in Maternity Hospital in Thapathali, Kathmandu.

The hospital records showed that Sangam was born to by a woman named Tika Subba, who originally hailed from Katari, but was living in Gokarna at the time of giving birth.

After getting labor pain, Tika Subba got admission in Maternity hospital at 10:15 pm and had given birth to a baby boy later that night.

Thereafter, Tika had suddenly fled from the hospital, abandoning the child, the hospital record showed.

The Maternity Hospital then handed over the abandoned child to Nepal Children Organizations.

Meanwhile, the government has almost completed work on listing international adoption agencies and Nepal-based orphanage homes which will restart the process of adoption of Nepali children by foreign nationals, the Kathmandu Post reports.

The government had stopped taking new applications for adoption in March 2007 following irregularities found in the process. nepalnews.com Oct 21 08