Like any other baby, little Lucy Hope loves being held and cuddled.
But the people showering her with love and affection are not her family - they're nurses and staff at Melomed Hospital in Bellville, Cape Town, who have been caring for her since she was found naked in a plastic bag on their doorstep.
She has the hospital staff wrapped around her little finger, paediatric ward unit manager Sister Mackie Jones said.
She was grateful that the mother had had the foresight to leave the little girl on a hospital doorstep, Jones said, pointing out that no one knew the mother's circumstances.
Hospital manager James van Vught said they were not the only ones who went out of their way for little Lucy Hope - pathology practice Pathcare waived the cost of testing her for Covid-19 and HIV.
