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Two Mothers Fight Over Baby Boy After Hospital Mix-up in Southern India
Kamatchi's mother Lakshmi argued, "My daughter came out of the theatre with the baby boy. She has also fed him," and threatened to immolate herself if the babies were switched now.
On Friday, relatives of both the mothers took to the streets, crying foul and blocking traffic in northern Chennai.
Meantime both the babies have been removed from their mothers and are kept in the neonatal intensive care unit.
"We are not sure how this happened," said Rajah Sir Ramaswamy Mudaliar (RSRM) Lying-In Hospital superintendent Cyndia Alexander. "We are holding an inquiry. Both the women delivered by caesarean section in the same operation theatre, on nearby tables.
Possibly the staff mixed up the wrist bands used to identify babies…”
Subsequently blood tests were done, but then it was not of much help. "Both babies are B-positive. The mothers are B-positive and AB-positive, which means their child could, medically, be B-positive. So we don't have any conclusive evidence yet," said Dr Mythili Baskar, dean, Stanley Medical College, who is also in charge of the RSRM Hospital.
The solution could be a DNA test, which could take a week. "We have sought government permission to conduct the test. We are not sure if either party needs to register a police complaint for this. Anyway we need to convince both parents. Until then, the babies will be in the neonatal intensive care unit. We will give the babies milk expressed from their mothers," Dr Baskar added.
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