Click to play videoChennai/Mumbai: Two babies were born within a few minutes of each other in a Chennai hospital: a baby boy to Farida and a baby girl to Kamakshi.
But the hospital staff mixed up the identity tokens and handed over Farida's boy to Kamakshi.
Later they tried to rectify the error but Kamakshi's family refused to accept the girl child.
"My grandchild was a son and I want my son,” said girl child's grandparent, B Annamalai.
The authorities have now decided to order a DNA test to resolve the issue.
Meanwhile in a similar case, no DNA test could help three-month-old Khushi Jaiswal in Mumbai. Khushi was abandoned at the Lokmanya Tilak hospital at birth because the Jaiswals insisted the hospital swapped their male child with her.
Though a DNA test has proven that Khushi is indeed Jaiswals’ child, the family refuses to accept her.
Hospital authorities say that if Khushi's parents don't accept her willingly, they might have to consider giving her for adoption."
"She needs to be taken to a good family, she can’t be kept at a hospital forever,” said Dean, Lokmanya Tilak hospital, Suleman Merchant.
Khushi's parents are now caught in a legal battle over the issue.
Help Khushi: Contact Lokmanya Tilak Hospital, Sion, Mumbai. Ph: 022-24092020.
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