Beijing: Two Chinese families are suing a hospital 15 years after they took home the wrong newborn babies, state media reported.
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 on Tuesday.
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.
Liu and Yao told the court that as their ''son'' grew older, his appearance and personality were so different to their own as ''to make people point'', and eventually lead to their divorce.
Both couples blamed hospital ''mismanagement in the process of providing treatment'' and staff negligence for the mix-up. As of now, the case continues.
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