A 35-year-old woman has discovered that she grew up in a family that was not biologically hers. The citizen attributes the error to the Fuerteventura Hospital where she was born, responsibility of the Canarian Health Service (SCS), where she was mistakenly handed over to the family of another newborn. Now she demands explanations from the Canarian Ministry of Health.
The woman's lawyer, the Riojan lawyer José Sáez Morga, has explained to EFE that it was at the end of 2025 when his client, "due to suspicion", requested genetic tests that accredited that her DNA is not related to that of the parents who raised her.
It is, this lawyer maintains, "an error of identification and delivery to a non-biological family, made manifest with DNA and blood group tests not corresponding to the one that was assigned to him upon leaving the hospital".
The lawyer requested actions from the SCS in November of last year through the General Directorate of Public Health. His client, of whom he has not wanted to give scarcely any data to maintain her privacy, remains awaiting a response.
The lawsuit provides the blood group analyses and the DNA tests in which it is demonstrated that the woman "is not the biological daughter of those who were told and to whom the infant was handed over at the time of birth" at the Fuerteventura General Hospital.
Sáez Morga expresses his discomfort after months waiting for a response from the Canarian Health Service: "We have provided documentation, but we have not heard back," he says.
And adds that "the ball would now be in the General Directorate of Public Health" of the Government of the Canary Islands.
The lawyer has requested a petition for actions for "it to be stated what the background is and for a reserved investigation to be opened to verify what actions the SCS has carried out regarding the event", but so far they have not been informed.
The intention is to know "what happened and who was in the center at that moment," points out the lawyer, who makes it clear that "we are not interested in going against any nurse or the SCS."
José Sáez Morga is also the legal representative of one of the two young women in the case of the exchange of two girls by mistake that occurred in 2002 in the pediatric area of the old San Millán hospital, in Logroño.
Now the courts, as reported by the newspaper El Día de La Rioja, approve the compensation of 975,000 euros to one of the babies who were swapped.
In addition to the Fuerteventura case, the Logroño lawyer handles cases of people affected by similar cases in Guadalajara and Barcelona.