INDORE: Health department will send DNA samples of a newborn girl for paternity test after her parents alleged that the health care centre in Betma, where the baby was delivered, replaced their boy with her.Health department officials recorded statement of parents, who alleged that they were blessed with a baby boy, who was replaced with a newborn girl by the health center staff on Dhar road, CMHO Pravin Jadia said.On September 13, 2018, Shahabuddin, resident of Sagor Kuti area, took his wife to public health centre for delivery. The doctors performed normal delivery and told him that his wife had given birth to a boy. However, after an hour, the nurse informed the parents that it was a girl and handed over the newborn to them, health officials said.When Shahabuddin felt something suspicious, he checked the hospital register and saw that the doctors first wrote boy and then corrected it with girl. The parents, however, left the hospital. A week later when Shahabuddin went to hospital to get birth certificate, the certificate had boy written on it.Shahabuddin smelled something fishy after which he clicked a photograph of the register and the certificate and filed a complaint to CMHO alleging that hospital staff had exchanged their child.After the complaint was received, CMHO handed over the case to district IDSP officer Dr Amit Malakar and PC Sethi Hospital in charge Dr Madhav Hassani for investigation, who then recorded statement of complainant and accused.“In the statements recorded, we suspect that someone from the hospital had tried to exchange the child as the register had a cut mark over boy and staff has done overwriting on it and it is impossible that a doctor was not sure that whether the infant is boy or girl,” said Dr Malakar.He added, “We recorded statement of hospital staff in which they claimed that it was due to clerical mistake, however, we are yet to record statement of medical officer of the health centre.”To verify the allegation, officials decided to get a DNA test done and proposed same to CMHO, who have agreed to it.“We will collect the sample and record statement of family members and medical officer in front of SDM so that no one can change their statement later. The sample will be sent to Delhi for DNA test since it is not conducted anywhere in Madhya Pradesh ,” Dr Malakar told TOI.

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