Two French families who discovered they had been given the wrong babies ten years after their daughters were born because of a hospital mix-up have been awarded 2million euros in compensation. A court in the southern town of Grasse ordered the clinic in Cannes to pay the compensation, which was eighty percent less than what the families had been demanding.
The families first discovered they had been given the wrong children after Sophie Serrano, now 38, gave birth to a daughter at the clinic in July, 1994. The baby suffered from jaundice and doctors put her in an incubator equipped with lights to treat the problem along with another affected newborn girl. However, a nurse refused to switch them and although both mothers immediately expressed doubt about the babies, pointing to their different hair lengths, they were sent home anyway.
Years later, troubled by the fact that his daughter, Manon, bore no resemblance to him with her darker skin, the father did a test that revealed he was not her biological parent. Mrs Serrano then discovered she was not Manon’s mother either, beginning to find the other family who had been handed their biological daughter.
The investigation revealed that at the time of the births in 1994, three newborns suffered from jaundice - the two girls and a boy - and the clinic only had two incubators with the special lights. The girls were therefore put together in one incubator.
After a closed court hearing in December, Manon said: “It was a pretty disturbing moment. You find yourself in front of a woman who is biologically your mother but who is a stranger.” But one of the families said they were completely glad with the decision and that the court had recognized the clinic was responsible.
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