MADRID (Reuters) - A 19-year old Spanish woman whose identity was swapped at birth with another baby born hours earlier is suing the regional health department for more than 3 million euros ($3.55 million), her lawyer told a local TV station on Tuesday.
The health department in the northern region of La Rioja said in a statement that an internal investigation found an undetermined "one-off human error" was to blame and added it would respect any judicial proceedings.
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