Aussie parent sues for millions for medics failure to detect daughter's abnormality

An Australian couple whose daughter was born with severe brain abnormality has lodged a lawsuit against several medical practitioners for failing to detect and warn them of the baby's condition during pregnancy.

The Gold Coast couple who are originally from New Zealand had filed the papers at the Brisbane Supreme Court on Tuesday and are claiming 2.5 million Australian dollars (1.89 million U.S. dollars) in damages, local media reported.

The couple is suing their former sonographer, radiologist and obstetrician from the Queensland Maternal Fetal Medicine in Southport.

In the papers, the couple said all three medical professionals should have detected and warn them about their baby's brain defect during the 19-week ultrasound held on September 2013.

The couple went on to say that they would have terminated the pregnancy had they known about the brain abnormality earlier, rather than to suffer financially and emotionally by being the parents of a disabled child. Endit