A man who was swapped shortly after his birth and has never found his real mother called yesterday for the health chief to step down after the latest baby-swap blunder.
Kelvin Li Kwok-yin, 32, said it was unacceptable that there should be a repetition three decades after his case and York Chow Yat-ngok should take personal responsibility. 'It is outrageous. I am angrier hearing of the recent swapping than when I discovered I had been swapped.'
Mr Li was speaking after two babies were swapped shortly after birth at Queen Elizabeth Hospital on August 7 in a mix-up that was discovered by one of the mothers the next day but which Dr Chow did not learn of until early on Monday - after it had been made public on Sunday night.
Mr Li said Dr Chow should resign because he had failed in his role in monitoring the Hospital Authority, even after his own case came to light more than a year ago.
Mr Li discovered two years ago that he had been swapped when his sister realised that his blood type meant he could not possibly be his mother's natural son.
Subsequent DNA tests proved he had been swapped.
Yesterday he said the government had failed to follow up on the flaws in the health care system indicated by his case.