by Bob Walsh
Doctors working at a hospital in Kenya were about two hours into brain surgery on a patient to remove a blood clot. There was no clot. Upon reflection there was a very good reason for there not being a blood clot. They were operating on the wrong patient.
Both patients had been brought into the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi unconscious. The guy that got the operation really only needed a non-invasive treatment to deal with some swelling of the brain.
So far the hospital is asserting that the patients name tags got switched. Four people have been suspended including a neurosurgeon, ward nurse, theatre receiving nurse and anaesthetist.
The patient who was supposed to be operated on has improved on his own without surgery.
Whoops.
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