Doctors are alleged to have mistakenly performed a hysterectomy on the wrong woman at the state hospital of Denizli, a province in the Aegean region of Turkey. Reports say the woman was scheduled to undergo a urinary tract operation when doctors instead performed an operation to remove her uterus.

  The operating team reportedly mixed E.Ç., 36, with another patient who was in the room next door, and who was supposed to undergo the hysterectomy. The two women reportedly have the same first names and similar surnames.

Read more: http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=113934 

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I´ve read stories like this before, they happen everywhere but how awful for this poor woman!