A Patient In A British Hospital [sterilized By Mistake]

2023 Author: Abraham Higgins | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-11-27 23:16

A patient in a British hospital [sterilized by mistake]

In one of the British hospitals, instead of another outpatient urological operation, the patient was mistakenly performed vasectomy, thereby completely sterilizing him. As The Daily Telegraph writes, since we are talking about a young, childless man, the amount of claims against the Royal Liverpool Hospital, where the incident occurred, could exceed one hundred thousand pounds.

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In one of the British hospitals, instead of another outpatient urological surgery, the patient was mistakenly performed a vasectomy procedure, thereby completely sterilizing him. As The Daily Telegraph writes, since we are talking about a young, childless man, the amount of claims against the Royal Liverpool Hospital, where the incident occurred, could exceed one hundred thousand pounds.

According to the hospital, where an internal investigation of the incident is now underway, the surgeon who made a mistake was suspended from work until it was completed. “We sincerely apologize to the patient and provide him with all-round support in this situation,” said Peter Williams, chief physician at Royal Liverpool Hospital. According to him, doctors are currently working to try, as far as possible, to rectify the situation.

Meanwhile, a local NHS executive admitted that the operation in question did not follow the WHO surgical safety protocol.

Vasectomy is a surgical procedure during which the vas deferens, which carry sperm from the testicles to the genitals, is blocked (ligated or removed), thereby achieving sterility (inability to have offspring). The efficiency of the operation is usually 99 percent. Partial restoration of the function of the vas deferens after it is possible, but, according to the NHS, the efficiency rate does not exceed 55 percent.