A hospital’s mistake has left a young man with a thousand questions in his mind and created a
traumatic experience for two families. A woman in China reportedly discovered that the man she had been raising for the last 27 years is actually not her biological child and it all happened due to an unfortunate incident.
The woman’s son, Abin fell sick and was diagnosed with end-stage liver cancer. After doctors informed the parents that he might have a chance at survival is he gets a liver transplant, the mother, Ms Xu decided to donate her own. However, when she got tested for the transplant, the results turned out to be not a match.
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Confused with the negative result, Xu had a maternity test done without letting her son find out and it turned out that he wasn’t her biological offspring. The news left her and her husband in utter shock and they decided to get to the root of this blunder.
Turns out, the hospital where Abin was born had three other male babies born on the same day back in 1992. The Huaihe Hospital of Henan University’s staff allegedly gave the wrong baby to the Ms Xu and her husband while handing their real son to another couple.
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In order to find out about their biological son, Ms Xu and her husband, Mr Yao continued to search for him and discovered that the family he was handed to live in the Henan city of Zhumadian.
Keeping this news away from Abin in order to avoid any further damage to his fragile health, the couple reached out to the family in order to be reunited with their real son.
Mx Xu tracked her son down to the city and reported his details to the local police station and believe us when we say this kind of stuff happens only in movies because the biological son, Awu turned out to be working at the very same station.
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After getting in touch with Abin’s biological parents, Ms Xu discovered that his biological mother is a Hepatitis B carrier and Abin was supposed to get a vaccine for the same when he was born but due to the hospital’s mishap, the wrong baby ended up getting the shot.
The hospital’s alleged mistake, it seems, is now causing distress to a young man with cancer. Awu told local media, “I was totally perplexed. I thought it was impossible for something like this to happen. It was a flood of different emotions. It’s very difficult to describe with words.”
Abin is still not aware of this development and Ms Xu is still on the lookout for a donor for him.
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On the other hand, Awu said that he plans to stay with his parents but will make sure to visit his biological parents from time to time. He said, “My parents treated me very well, providing me with education, care and love. I hope to resolve this in a way that doesn’t harm either set of my parents. They’re both my parents. I don’t want to upset either side.”
The Kaifeng Hospital Commission is doing an investigation on the matter. The hospital’s director Zhang Yijie said, “At this pointing, finding the doctor who made the mistake would be an academic exercise. The most important thing now is how to compensate the families.”