Couple alleges child-swapping at HP’s Kamla Nehru Hospital

The couple from Shimla says baby’s DNA does not match with mother’s, alleges that their boy child was exchanged with a girl child after delivery

SHIMLA: A young couple in Shimla is alleging that their “real child” was swapped at the government-run Kamla Nehru Hospital for Mother and Child during delivery.

In her complaint to the police, Sheetal Thakur alleged that the staff on duty at the hospital had swapped her new-born male child with a female baby.

She also attached a copy of DNA test reports conducted at a private laboratory with the complaint.

“I was shifted to the labour room at 10 pm and at about 11.30 pm I was blessed with a child. Doctors, staff and nurses congratulated me about my newborn baby boy. So, when, after a few minutes, I was handed a baby girl I was shocked,” Thakur said in her complaint to the Shimla SP.

“The staff has committed a huge blunder by exchanging my newborn baby with another. When I went into labour, another woman was taken into the labour room as well,” she further said.

“We conducted an inquiry at the personal level during which the hospital staff anonymously revealed that a “child exchange” racket had been going on since a long time,” she alleged.

“Then we decided go in for DNA testing. In the recent DNA report, it was found that the probability of me being the mother of the child handed over to me was zero,” she further said.

In her compliant, Thakur has demanded firm action against the hospital and has further urged the police to investigate the matter and locate her “real child”.

The complaint was made to the police in July this year.

“We want the police to help us in tracking our real new born,” Anil Thakur, Sheetal’s husband, said.