NAJRAN: A Saudi man wonders if he and his wife were given the wrong baby after his son was born almost seven years ago. Jaber Nasser Salim Aal Rizq said his wife delivered their fourth son in the King Khaled Hospital in the Najran area and at the moment of delivery, wristbands were placed on the mother and baby boy and he was taken to an incubator. Aal Rizq pointed out that seven hours after the delivery, a female Saudi nurse came to check his wife, compared her medical file and the data on her wristband and found differences in the information. The nurse changed the data without bringing the baby boy, who was in the incubator, to verify it. “I met the doctor supervising my wife's case and he informed me that I was blessed with a baby boy and said he would remain in the incubator due to a fracture in the left shoulder and dislocation in the left arm,” he said. “The doctor informed me that a specialist was following up my son's case.” When he wanted to move his wife and son to another facility, he learned there were problems with the medical records. “I got the release of my wife and son on my responsibility and I took the baby boy to a private hospital for treatment, but the hospital where he was born took three hours to give me a release for the mother and infant because they said the boy's file was lost,” he said. Aal Rizq's doubts about the boy's lineage led him to visit the hospital's administration and ask for a detailed medical report on the boy's case. “I was shocked to find that the medical report mentioned only the time of birth and date of discharge from the hospital, without any other information,” he said. Okaz/Saudi Gazette tried to contact the director general of Health Affairs in Najran to ask about the case and his office's role in these matters, but he did not respond.
