JIZAN: A Saudi woman suffered a nervous breakdown when her baby girl was swapped with a boy baby, members of the woman's family told Okaz/Saudi Gazette. Okaz/Saudi Gazette approached Gebrail Al-Gabi, spokesman for the Health Affairs Directorate, to clarify the matter but he asked reporters to send him a fax and did not reply in two days. The baby's family told Okaz/ Saudi Gazette that the team responsible for giving newborns to their mothers at the Gynecology and Obstetrics Department at King Fahd Hospital in Jizan made a mistake and swapped the babies. The woman's brother said his sister was admitted to the delivery ward to deliver the girl, having learned of the baby's gender from an ultrasound test. After she gave birth, the ward's nurses assured her that the baby girl was in good health, but they kept her in an incubator for some time. When the woman asked nurses to bring her baby, they brought a screaming newborn that was wrapped in a sheet. At that point, another woman, who was crying hysterically, came into the room. She was looking for her baby boy and thought he had been kidnapped. The chaos and mess continued for about three hours, until nurses checked the bracelets on babies' wrists and discovered that they swapped the babies and that the baby girl was still in the incubator.
