Warsaw - A Polish court awarded some 1.9 million zloty (566,403 dollars) to two families whose babies were switched at birth 25 years ago.

The families had demanded more than 2 million zloty in the case that's dragged in a Warsaw court for the past seven years, the Polish Press Agency has reported.

The children were switched at a Warsaw hospital in 1984 after the twins of one family were placed in the same ward with the daughter of another family.

The girls were picked up by their parents two weeks later, PAP reported. But after 17 years it turned out one of the twins had been mistaken for the other family's daughter.

The twins realized they'd been switched after mutual friends kept mistaking them for each other. A DNA test later confirmed they were sisters.

Both families suffered psychological damage in the case, reported the daily Dziennik.

One twin cut off contact with both families after she found out about the switch, while the other said she doesn't consider her twin a sister. (dpa)