A newborn baby boy in northwest China's Shaanxi Province has been reunited with his parents after getting sold to human traffickers no less than by the attending maternity doctor or obstetrician who facilitated his birth.

"I was told the baby would not survive and the best thing for me would be to let the hospital take care of it so I did," the baby's mum, Dong Wan, said.

Dong said the maternity doctor or obstetrician who attended to her birth delivery, Zhang Lin, particularly told her that she gave birth to a son in the morning of July 17, but with severe health problems and would die anytime soon. The baby was born in Fuping County Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital.

Newborn Chinese Baby Reunited with Parents After Getting Sold By Maternity Doctor

She was even made to sign waiver papers concerning her baby, not knowing that her newborn son had been offered up for sale to human traffickers amounting to 21,600 yuan (US$3,494).

Zhang sold the baby a day after he was born. The newborn infant was found 20 days later at around 3 a.m. on Sunday in a town in Anyang City of neighboring Henan Province. The boy was well taken-cared of.

Later on, the mother realised that she could have been duped by the doctor. She and her husband immediately reported the case to police.

Police have arrested and detained the doctor and another two other people on suspicion of infant trafficking.

The hospital's head and her two deputies have lost their jobs due to the trafficking case.

Initial investigations showed at least five other sets of parents have lost their newborn babies from the same hospital in the same fashion.