DNA test revealed a mix-up at the hospital: girl received a million compensation.

According to ТСН: A 23-year-old woman from Spain took a DNA test and found out that she had been swapped with another child in the hospital where she was born.

At 19, she learned that her parents were not her biological mother and father, and after that she contacted health authorities to clarify the situation.

The hospital mix-up story

A four-year investigation confirmed that at the San Millán hospital in Logroño in 2002, two newborns were sent home with the wrong families. Officials explained this horrific incident as simple negligence on the part of the staff.

An additional complication to this situation was the news of the biological mother’s death in 2018. The woman did not get to meet her daughter as she died during the investigation.

Legal consequences

Both girls who became victims of this mix-up filed lawsuits. The Spanish woman, who could never see her biological mother, demanded over 3 million euros as compensation for her suffering. The court awarded both girls 850 thousand euros each, but for this plaintiff, they added another 125 thousand euros for her difficult childhood circumstances: her legal parents had disabilities and could not care for her, so she was raised by her grandmother. She felt abandoned.

The compensation may be increased after an appeal, and payments will be made by the insurers of the regional health service of La Rioja.

Previously, the woman reviewed her birth certificate for the first time in 15 years and made a discovery that went viral.

“Unfortunately, all these years I felt unwanted,” she noted in one of her interviews.

This situation has highlighted serious flaws in the healthcare system, and its resonance has drawn public attention to issues of identity and human rights. The woman and her peers who experienced similar situations can now hope for justice and support, which gives hope to many others who found themselves in similar circumstances.