Lead on baby mix-up comes to nothing

Another effort to find the biological family of a man swapped with another newborn in a hospital mix-up 31 years ago has come to nothing.

An anonymous man who came forward and had his DNA tested this month is not the biological son of the woman who reared Kelvin Li Kwok-yin as her own son. DNA tests on another man in January also came to nothing.

Mr Li said yesterday that Queen Mary Hospital staff called him on Monday telling him of the result and would send him an official letter later.

'The result was within our expectations,' he said. 'There's nothing we can do at this moment. We will continue waiting, after all we have already waited for many years.'

The first man to take the test, identified only as Ah Hung, came forward in January after Mr Li's plight was revealed by the media. Blood tests in November had proved that Mr Li, born at Tsan Yuk Hospital in Sai Ying Pun on November 30, 1976, could not be the biological son of Lui Fung-ha.

In February, the Hospital Authority asked 180 mothers who had babies at the hospital between November 28 and December 14, 1976, to come for a DNA test. About 30 per cent of the 180 letters were returned undelivered.