Child swapping: High drama at Jalandhar civil hospital
After delivery, I was informed that I gave birth to a baby boy. My child’s footprints were also taken but later, my relatives told me that I have given birth to a girl. BALJEET KAUR, mother
JALANDHAR: Another incident of alleged newborn swap ping by the civil hospital staff has came to light, when a couple created out rage in the delivery ward, early morning,here on Friday.
The victim Baljeet Kaur,of Mu t had aKhu rd village wasbaffled after her relative informed that she has given birth to a girl child.
“During delivery, I was informed that I gave birth to a baby boy. My child’s footprints were also taken on the file but later, my relatives told that I have given birth to ag irl,”saidKa ur in her complaint to DC Varinder Kumar Sharma, also forwarded to the medical superintendent KS Bains.
“After we raised the issue,the staff found my son after two hours,”Kaur added.
Ka ur, a housewife, isa mother of two. Her husband D harm in der Lal is a daily wage labourer.
K au rh as requested the administration to take stern action against the on-duty staff for their lackadaisical attitude and take preventive measure to stop the practice.
The incident also brought into light the biases that the society still carries for the girl child.
The civil hospital staff said, the couple whose girl child was exchanged with boy, later disagreed to take the girl child back, claiming that the mother had given birth to a boy.
It was after the argument between both the parties that the father Dharminder Lal called Shiv Sena workers to intervene.
The matter got solved after the footprints of the newborn were checked by the hospital staff.
The fourth-grade lady staff involved in the delivery has been removed from the gynaecology ward.
Meanwhile, the medical superintendent KS Bawa has setup a two-membercommittee ofsenior medical officer gynae Dr Sangeeta Kapoor and the trauma ward head Dr Sanjeev Singh.