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Baby mix-up: hospital authorities trying to persuade mothers to resolve issue

CHENNAI: Authorities of the Raja Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar Lying-in Hospital continued to persuade the mothers Kamakshi and Farida, whose babies were inadvertently swapped on Thursday evening, to resolve the issue.

“We are trying to convince the mothers and the families to take their baby,” Mythili Bhaskar, Stanley Medical College Dean told The Hindu on Saturday.

She had enquired into the incident on Friday. Hospital authorities are hoping that the mothers and the families of the children would amicably resolve the issue, taking home their baby as per hospital records, at least by Monday.

The babies continue to be in the nursery and are said to be doing well.

Since the blood group of both babies was identical (B positive), the hospital authorities initially considered the possibility of conducting a DNA test to establish the parentage of the children.

The plan to go for a DNA test was stymied with both families not preferring a complaint even on Saturday and the hospital maintaining its stand that it would not do so either.

Parents of the boy and baby girl raised a furore on the hospital campus in Royapuram on Friday morning when they discovered that their children had been swapped after they were delivered within 20 minutes of each other.

As per the hospital records, Farida delivered a boy and Kamakshi, a girl. But, the hospital staff switched the babies (inadvertently, they claim) and handed over the boy to Kamakshi and girl to Farida to feed.

When the mistake was discovered, Kamakshi continued to maintain she had delivered a boy and refused to take the girl child.

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