From a tragic mistake in a private clinic in Austria, the wrong patient’s leg was amputated and now what should have been amputated from the beginning must be amputated!
An incredible incident occurred in a private clinic in Austria , with doctors mutilating a patient’s wrong leg , attributing the “tragic error” to a human factor.
According to the Freistadt Clinic, an elderly man suffering from different diseases at the same time was admitted to the clinic, where doctors thought that his left leg should be amputated immediately, but they finally cut off his right leg and found out their mistake two days later.
” We are deeply shocked that – despite quality assurance protocols – the wrong leg of an 82-year-old man was amputated, ” said the clinic’s director, Norbert Fritz.
According to Gurdian, the 82-year-old did not initially realize what had happened, due to the condition in which he has contracted the disease. The mistake seems to have happened shortly before the operation, when they marked the leg that should have been amputated . The patient is provided with psychological help, while he will have to undergo another operation to amputate his left leg .
