Hospital sued over baby mixup

WEIRD WEDNESDAY

After 15 years, two families in Beijing realize that they brought the wrong baby home from the hospital. Read the full story about the BABY MIXUP.

A couple surnamed Lu, who gave birth at a hospital in Nanning in the southern province of Guangxi in 1991, suspected that the boy was not her biological son after a test in 2004 showed their blood types were incompatible, Xinhua news agency said.

After further testing confirmed the boy was not biologically related, the couple acquired a register of babies born on the same day as their son from the hospital, Xinhua said.

“It was confirmed that a boy raised by a woman surnamed Liu who had given birth to a son on the same day was actually theirs, and that the boy they had raised was the son of Liu and a man surnamed Yao,” Xinhua said.

I SAY:

         Putting the lawsuit aside, how are these families going to handle it? Will they so easily give up the “son” they have known and raised for the last 15 years? Will the boys accept there new parents? the damage here is irreversible.  No amount of money will bring those 15 years back, or ease the adjustment into the future. Hospital mistakes like these are preventable with better patient management requirements like ID Bracelets, etc. It is a very unfortunate incident.