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Incredible medical error in a clinic: They mutilated the wrong leg of a patient

What happened at a clinic in Austria The human mind can hardly fit it: the doctors mutilated the wrong leg of an elderly patient and in fact this incredible mistake was realized two days later.

The Freistadt Clinic, in a small town near the Czech border, said she was “deeply shocked” and described the incredible incident as a “tragic mistake”.

The 82-year-old patient had to undergo surgery for him mutilation of his foot, but the surgeons marked the wrong extremity before proceeding to the room where the surgery would take place.

And it was two days later, during a routine visit to change the bandage, when terrified nurses found that a very serious mistake had been made during the surgery.

A full investigation into the case will be conducted by the clinic and a statement issued to the public states that “we are deeply shocked that on Tuesday, despite the quality assurance protocols, the mistake foot an 82-year-old man was mutilated “.

The patient is provided with psychological support and he will have to have another operation to amputate his left leg from the middle of the thigh. “The operation is scheduled to take place soon,” she said clinic.

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