Surgery Gone Wrong: Doctors Operate Minor's Private Part Instead of Injured Leg

Thane: In a shocking incident, parents of a nine-year-old from Maharashtra's Thane district's Shahapur area have complained that doctors at a government-run hospital wrongly performed a surgery on his private part instead of an injured leg, PTI reported.

The parents of the minor boy said, "The boy suffered an injury on his leg while he was playing with his friends last month. He was admitted to the sub-district hospital in Shahapur on June 15 and was undergoing treatment. The doctors recently performed a circumcision surgery on his private part instead of the injured leg." 

They added that after realising their goof-up, the doctors conducted a surgery on his injured leg soon afterwards.

Following the allegations put up by parents, a health official assured an inquiry into the episode.

District Civil Surgeon Dr Kailas Pawar told PTI that the health authorities will conduct an inquiry into the allegations.

Medical officer at the hospital, Gajendra Pawar, said that besides his leg injury, the boy also had a problem with phimosis (tight foreskin).

"We had to carry out two operations," he said.

Furthermore, concerning informing the parents about the second operation, the medical official said that the doctors might have forgotten to tell them or they might have told the other relatives of the patient.

What the doctors did was right and there was nothing wrong with it. But the parents refused to accept the explanation given by the doctors, Pawar said.

The parents lodged a complaint with the Shahapur police. However, no case has been registered so far in this connection, a police official said that a probe into the complaint was underway.

(Inputs from PTI)