how would you feel? If you are in this situation?
By maquisa
@maquisa (316)
Philippines
June 2, 2008 2:57am CST
i just read this article in yahoo this afternoon...
Madrid(REuters) - A spanish twin, separated from her family for 28 years, is suing the Canary Islands for mix- up at the maternity hospital which led to her being taken home by the wrong mother, media reported Wednesday.
The woman discovered she had an identical twin when she was mistaken for someone else in a shop in 2001.
The two sisters, who were not named,found they were born in the same hospital in 1973 around the same time and a DNA test subsequently showed they were identical twins.
"In 1973 there were two assistants and one supervisor for 60 babies," Densi Calero, who worked in the maternity unit of the clinic at the time,told local radio." It's not imposiible to imagine something like this could happen."
The woman is suing the Canary Island health services for 3 million euros ($4.7 million)for emotional trauma, EI pais newspaper reported. " I wish I'd never found out about it," her lawyer quoted her as saying.
Her sister was brought up alongside another girl,believing they were twins.
4 responses
@Bananaman (74)
•
10 Jun 08
If I was in this situation, I would take the hospital for all it's worth. Lives are torn to pieces this way.
@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
10 Jul 08
If I was the girl I would feel shocked at the hospitals mistake and I would sue them with my lawyers help. I think that it would feel strange to find out that you have been separated from your twin for 28 years. One of the girls grew up with a girl she thought was her twin so she must also be upset. The girl that was meant to a twin and wasn't must also be quite cross. The mothers that had their children mixed up must feel some anger.
@optimisticgrl23 (397)
• United States
4 Jun 08
I heard about this and was completely shocked when I read about it. If I was a member of the family, I would be infuriated with the hospital for making such a huge mistake. If I was hospital, I would feel so embarrassed and humiliated that no one caught onto this until just recently.