5日下午，河南省蘭考縣政府召開新聞發布會，通報該縣“1·04”私人棄兒收養所火災事故救援及善后處理事宜，公布政府部門允許涉事戶主袁厲害常年收養棄兒的緣由，并承認監管不到位，工作確實存在紕漏。
Kaifeng (CNS) -- The local government of Lankao County in central China's Henan Province admitted Saturday that its lack of oversight had played a hand in the fire that killed at least seven at a private orphanage.
The fire which broke out Friday morning has brought the local government under public scrutiny, along with Yuan Lihai, the woman who ran the orphanage.
Wu Changsheng, deputy county governor, said at a press conference that they had allowed Yuan to illegally adopt children over the years and "bore unshirkable responsibilities" for the tragedy.
"We have loopholes in our work," he said.
Yuan, who has her own children and is not financially stable, was not qualified to adopt so many children and hadn't registered with the local civil affairs bureau, Wu added.
Responding to the question of why Yuan had been allowed to adopt more than 100 children for as long as 26 years, Wu said they had tolerated it out of consideration for her "kind-hearted acts." He added that the local government had taken some measures, like making Yuan send some of the kids to legal welfare houses, but that it was not enough.
Wu said that the local government had provided subsistence allowances for 20 children from the orphanage and granted some census registrations. Another 10 children adopted by Yuan, who was absent when the fire broke out, have been sent to a welfare home in Kaifeng, he said.
The Ministry of Public Security has sent experts to investigate and Yuan is still in police custody, sources said.
5日下午，河南省蘭考縣政府召開新聞發布會，通報該縣“1·04”私人棄兒收養所火災事故救援及善后處理事宜，公布政府部門允許涉事戶主袁厲害常年收養棄兒的緣由，并承認監管不到位，工作確實存在紕漏。
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