CNN reported that the provincial government in Shaanxi, northwest China, announced the twin’s rescue Thursday. The parents, mother Wang Yanyan and father Qi Kunfeng, of Dongcheng village, Fuping County, were scheduled to reunite with their children yesterday.
Police had earlier recovered a baby boy allegedly sold by the same obstetrician to traffickers, and reunited him with his parents Monday.
The doctor allegedly at the center of the scandal is Zhang Shuxia, deputy director of the maternity department of the Fuping County Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, reported the state-run CCTV.
Since news of the scandal broke, police have received reports of 55 similar cases from local residents, including 26 cases pointing to Zhang, China Daily reported. Police launched investigations into five of the reported cases, and Zhang was detained on suspicion of human trafficking.
The parents of the allegedly trafficked twins told CNN that after Wang gave birth at the hospital on May 29, Zhang convinced them to give up the children, telling them that the girls had serious health issues.
“The doctor was pretending to be very anxious, telling me that my babies have congenital problems. She said the twins would be brain damaged or paralysed,” Wang said.
The couple never saw their children after the birth, they said.
“I insisted on seeing the babies, but she wouldn’t let me,” said Wang. They trusted Zhang. “I never suspected that she was selling my babies, because she was a family friend,” she said.
The twins’ father, Qi, told CNN that the loss of the children had a profound impact on the couple.
“Every night for two months my wife would cry, and she couldn’t eat from worry.”
Of Zhang, his former friend, he said: “I think she is evil. She is a terrible person.”
“We trusted her so much. How could she be so cruel to sell our babies?”
Two government officials and three hospital officials have been sacked over the scandal, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
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