Hunt for mums, babies from one day in 1976
The Hospital Authority is to appeal for women who had babies at Tsan Yuk Hospital, Sai Ying Pun, on November 30, 1976, and males born there that day, to come forward for DNA tests.
It is trying to find the parents of 31-year-old Kelvin Li Kwok-yin, who recently discovered he was given to the wrong couple at the hospital, and that couple's biological son.
The authority confirmed yesterday it would launch a public appeal but said the scope might be wider than November 30, 1976. 'We are still discussing the timeframe. We may tend to call people born or mothers who delivered their babies within the period that falls either immediately before or after Kelvin's birthday,' authority spokesman Poon Kai-tik said.
Mr Li revealed to the media last month that the authority had told him it would search for 107 babies who shared his birthday and test them. But yesterday Mr Poon said it was yet to be confirmed exactly how many babies were born that day.
Details of the public appeal would be released in a written statement on Monday at the earliest, he said.
