Parents of swapped baby girls take hospital to court for damages

The parents of two baby girls who were swapped at birth in a Třebíč maternity ward have been unable to agree with the hospital concerned on damages and are taking the matter to court. Each set of parents has demanded 12 million CZK (nearly 700,000 USD) from the hospital, while it says it is willing to give the parents 1 million CZK (58,000 USD) each. The hospital’s lawyer says that no long term psychological damage had been caused by the mix-up, and thus the hospital could not consider handing out such a high amount. The parents are asking for 1 million crowns for each month they were separated from their own biological child. Veronika and Nikolka were swapped back only days before their first birthdays on December 9 last year.