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Hong Kong teenager left partially paralysed after suspected medical blunder

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A 15-year-old girl was left half paralysed after a suspected medical blunder in United Christian Hospital, when an artery was wrongly pierced in a medical procedure which was meant to treat an inflammation in her spinal cord.  In a press conference on Saturday, family members of the Form Four girl, accused medical staff at the Kwun Tong hospital of committing multiple errors when treating the girl’s condition, known as acute transverse myelitis. They hoped the hospital would admit...

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