A 19-year-old woman has filed a lawsuit against a hospital after learning from a DNA test that she was switched at birth 19 years ago.
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The discovery was made in La Rioja, Spain after one of the baby girls from the hospital took the test due to a family dispute in 2017. She was born in 2002 at the San Millan de Logrono Hospital where both infants were five hours apart and underweight. Hospital employees placed the two baby girls in incubators within a certain time frame.
“In the case of my client, she was born later but was given to the mother who gave birth to the first child. This is negligence so gross that it speaks for itself,” her attorney Jose Saez Morga said in a statement to local media.
After receiving the news, the hospital issued an apology to the young woman for giving her to the wrong parents as reported by the New York Post. “It was a human error and we haven’t been able to find out who was to blame,” said health chief Sara Alba.
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Health officials also claim they were not aware of similar cases involving the clinic. The other woman has been informed of the error but has yet to release a statement in regards to the swap.