Second case of babies switched at birth angers Canadian indigenous people
Source: Guardian
Second case of babies switched at birth angers Canadian indigenous people
Men from same remote Canadian community discovered they were switched at birth, prompting outrage and questions about substandard healthcare
Reuters in Winnipeg
Friday 26 August 2016 17.47 EDT
For the second time in less than a year, two men from the same remote Canadian community have discovered they were switched at birth, prompting outrage and new questions about substandard healthcare for Canada’s indigenous people.
David Tait and Leon Swanson were swapped in the government-run Norway House Hospital in 1975 in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, DNA testing confirmed.
“I want answers so bad,” Tait said, choking back tears at a press conference in Winnipeg on Friday. He added that he felt “distraught, confused (and) angry”.
Tait’s biological mother ended up raising Swanson instead, and Swanson’s birth mother raised Tait, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/26/babies-switched-at-birth-canada-indigenous-hospital
