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Parents given wrong embryo said planning to sue hospital for $3 million
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A report on Monday night said that parents who were given the wrong embryo at a hospital in Rishon Lezion plan to sue the hospital for NIS 10 million ($2.9 million) because of the mistake.
The mother gave birth to the child at the end of October, not long after the news of the mix-up caused a media firestorm across the country.
At first, the Health Ministry tried to find the child's biological parents. However, when tests showed that the most likely parents were not a certain couple, officials said late last month that the search would be stopped.
The parents who carried the baby say they want to keep it and will fight to keep custody if anyone tries to take it away from them.
After the mistake, the Health Ministry thought about closing the IVF unit at Assuta, but in the end, they decided not to. But it told the department that it had to cut its activities by half, from 10,000 fertilization treatments a year to 5,000.
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