Hyderabad: A confusion occurred at Petlaburj Maternity Hospital when two newborn girls were allegedly swapped. The babies were born on April 11. After 11 days Tameena Begum developed a doubt that her baby was swapped with one of Yadamma who was admitted in the same labour room. She immediately approached the hospital authorities but they didn’t accept her complaint. So she lodged a complaint with Charminar police on Friday. The inspector said, “In the complaint Tameena alleged that the hospital authorities swapped her child when nurses took the child for bath. We registered the complaint and asked the hospital to conduct the required tests.”
He added, “The main reason Tameena developed a doubt was her family’s opinion that the girl’s facial features didn’t resemble the couple. So she immediately rushed to the hospital and claimed that her child was swapped. But the hospital authorities didn’t take her complaint and told her that the child was not swapped. Upset at the attitude of hospital authorities she filed a complaint with us.”
Police said that DNA tests will be conducted to set at rest Tameena’s doubt. If she is unhappy with the results of the test samples of all relevant persons will be taken by forensic officials for medical examination.
Mr K. Anil Kumar a physician said, “In the A, B and O blood typing system, humans can possess the A antigen (A blood type), the B antigen (B blood type), both the A and B antigen (AB blood type), or neither of these antigens (O blood type). Red blood cell antigen systems of this sort can be used for paternity testing because there are genes that code for the antigens and these are inherited genes. The DNA test is always preferred because of its accuracy.”
Superintendent of Petlaburj hospital, Ms J. Pratibha said, “If the couple is unhappy with the blood test then we will conduct DNA tests, but they are satisfied now. We tried to contact Yadamma, but was unable to reach her.”
