If you thought Kenyan doctors were quacks, then this heart-wrenching doctors’ mistake with shock you.
A man has been circumcised by mistake after surgeons confused him for another patient.
An NHS report reveals the man – who has not been named – was scheduled to have his bladder inspected via a thin camera in a cystoscopy.
But the patient’s notes became mixed up with those of a man who was due to be circumcised last September.
The case is one of eight ‘never events’ that took place at University Hospital of Leicester NHS Trust last year.
‘Never events’ are serious, preventable mistakes that are considered so shockingly bad they should never occur.
They also cover operating on the wrong patient or the incorrect part of the body.
Leicestershire Live asked the man’s age, with the trust confirming he is an adult but saying further details are ‘irrelevant’.
The trust also denied to answer exactly how the error came about.
The report – by Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group (LCCCG) – also revealed the trust left a swab inside a child following nasal surgery.
And in April, a patient had surgery meant for a man with a similar name.
In yet another blunder, one patient even had a hip implant fitted on the wrong side.