Dennis Quaid and his wife, Kimberly Buffington and their twins are one of the luckiest families in the world. their twins, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, almost lost their lives as newborns. They pulled through and are now perfectly healthy, but in the beginning, it was a nightmare.

“[Mix-ups] happen in every hospital in every state in this country and … I’ve come to find out, there’s 100,000 people a year killed … in hospitals by a medical mistakes,” the 53-year-old actor tells 60 Minutes in a segment scheduled to air Sunday, CBS reports.

Last November, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace Quaid were mistakenly given a massive overdose of the drug Heparin, rather than Hep-tock, a much-weaker version of the drug routinely given to clear IV lines in pediatric patients.

“Our kids are bleeding from everyplace that they’ve punctured,” says Quaid. “They were working on Boone, whose belly button would not stop bleeding – blood squirted across the room. It was blood everywhere. It was a life-and-death situation.”

The Quaids are suing manufacturer Baxter International, which manufactures both drugs. The couple maintain that the similarity between the vials have resulted in similar mix-ups elsewhere. A parallel incident in Indiana resulted in three infant fatalities that led Baxter to re-label its vials and issue a warning to hospitals.

“After these three kids died in Indiana, they did not issue a recall,” says Quaid. “They recall dog food that came from China last year. But they don’t recall medicine that kills people if you give it in the wrong dosage. We think it’s wrong.”

Debra Bello, a senior director at Baxter, tells 60 Minutes that her company did not issue a recall, “Because the product was safe and effective, and the errors, as the hospital has acknowledged, were preventable and due to failures in their system.”

Quaid is now establishing a foundation to look into preventative measures within the medical system. “The nurse didn’t bother to look at the dosage on the bottle. It was avoidable, completely avoidable.”

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