After the news of her rescue from the rubble of a collapsed building was made public, thousands of people have offered to adopt baby Aya, who survived the earthquake that has left more than 20,000 dead in Syria and Turkey.
Aya, which means miracle in Arabic, remains in a hospital after barely surviving.
The rescue of the baby, who was still attached to her mother by the umbilical cord, was recorded and broadcast by the rescue teams.
[They record the miraculous rescue of a baby: her mother gave birth before dying in the rubble of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria]
The mother and baby were trapped in the remains of a building in the Syrian town of Jindires.
His father and brothers also died.
The woman, displaced from the eastern region of Deir Ezzor by the Syrian civil war, gave birth during the quake, the AFP news agency reported.
Khalil al-Suwadi, a distant relative, who was there when she was brought to safety, took the newborn to Dr. Marouf in the Syrian city of Afrin.
Thousands of people on social networks have asked for details to adopt her.
One report said that her great-uncle would adopt her.
“I would like to adopt her and give her a decent life,” said one person.
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However, the director of the hospital where she remains hospitalized, assured that she will not allow "nobody to adopt her now."
"Until her family away from her returns, I will treat her like one of my daughters," Khalid Attiah said.
Attiah confirmed that he has received dozens of calls from people around the world wanting to adopt the girl, BBC News reported.
The death toll from the quake has eclipsed the more than 18,400 fatalities recorded in 2011 off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, which triggered a tsunami, and the 18,000 believed to have died in another tremor near Istanbul in 1999.
["Dad is here, don't be afraid." Exciting rescue of a girl buried under the rubble by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria]
Some 12,000 buildings have collapsed or are badly damaged across Turkey, Environment and Urban Planning Minister Murat Kurum said.
The Turkish emergency management agency explained that more than 110,000 personnel participated in the rescue efforts and that more than 12,000 vehicles such as tractors, cranes, excavators and backhoes were sent.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry said 95 countries offered help and 7,000 rescuers from 60 countries were already on the ground.
Another 19 nations are expected to send troops as well.