Friday, November 07, 2008

Mother sent home with wrong baby

A Romanian woman who gave birth to a baby girl got home to find the hospital had given her a boy instead.

Cristina Zahariuc, 35, from Horlesti in Iasi county, only realised the mistake when she changed the baby's nappy.

She said: "The nurses brought me the baby in the clothes I gave them so I didn't suspect anything.



"Only when I got home and I invited some friends and the baby's godparents to see her did I notice my 'girl' had an penis. I was paralysed."

Staff at Sfanta Maria Hospital in Iasi said the mix-up was due to the fact that the babies had similar family names - Zahariuc and Zaharia - and were in neighbouring cots.

However, the hospital has launched an internal investigation to find out who was responsible for the mistake.

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