Ruckus over ‘baby swap’

Malda: The Malda district hospital witnessed a ruckus over the alleged swap of newborns on Saturday. Relatives of one of the babies lodged a complaint after being allegedly roughed up by hospital workers. Sources said both Nilufa Biwi (19) of Jalangi in Old Malda and Nurmahal Biwi of English Bazaar were hospitalised on Friday and both had their babies on Saturday morning. While Nilufa delivered a boy, Nurmahal had a daughter. However, when the mothers were taken to their beds, Nilufa was given a girl. Nilufa’s husband Dulal Sheikh and his mother Nurnehar Biwi took up the issue with the nurses immediately. But the latter allegedly roughed up Nurnehar. Nurmahal, too, informed the nurses about the swap. Though the mistake was rectified, Nurnehar lodged a complaint with English Bazaar police, who assured her of a probe. Hospital superintendent Animesh Roy also promised to look into the matter. TNN