A woman lost her spleen during a botched operation intended to remove a kidney at a Hong Kong private hospital.
The 57-year-old woman underwent surgery performed by a visiting urologist at St Paul’s Hospital in Causeway Bay on March 25 to remove a tumorous kidney, according to the Department of Health and the hospital.
The patient was discharged on April 16. Details of the hospital’s follow-up treatment and the woman’s condition were not disclosed. The spokesman for the hospital said the doctor’s admission rights and privileges for the establishment had been suspended. The Department of Health, which was alerted two days after the incident, said it had requested the hospital to submit an investigative report within four weeks, which it did.
Urologist Dr Kenneth Fu Kam-fung, also a council member of the Hong Kong Practising Specialists Association, said he had never heard of such a mistake happening locally and it was unacceptable, considering the distinctive differences between the kidney and the neighbouring spleen, a non-vital organ.
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