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"Sheynovo" Hospital refuses to pay a total of BGN 600,000 compensation requested by the parents of the swapped babies.

This was made clear by a message from the health facility.

The hospital prefers to go to court to determine what the amount of compensation should be.

The families of the two exchanged girls asked for BGN 300,000 each.

The case made headlines in December.

However, the babies were born in September and have been living with the wrong parents for months after being switched on discharge.

The board of directors got acquainted with the opinion of the external consultant prepared in connection with the stated claim by one of the families in the case with the exchanged babies, the hospital announced.

The analysis is based on a review of nearly 600 medical malpractice cases from 2007 to 2022.

In order to ensure comprehensiveness, a review was also carried out of other cases (outside of medical torts) in which compensation was awarded for non-pecuniary damages expressed as stress, worry, shock from information presented, suffering (without causing physical damage).

SOS will not allocate money for benefits for the exchanged babies

Given the fact that the case is unprecedented, and the range of compensation awarded for non-pecuniary damages in court practice is wide, the Board of Directors of "Vtora SAGBAL Sheynovo" EAD decided to entrust the examination of the case to the court.

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