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Elderly Hong Kong woman has part of her reproductive system removed after serious medical blunder

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A 79-year-old patient at a Hong Kong public hospital sustained serious injuries to her reproductive organs in a medical blunder in which a medical device which was supposed to be introduced rectally was mistakenly inserted into her reproductive tract. The woman at Queen Elizabeth Hospital had to have part of her reproductive system removed to prevent infection after the blunder, the hospital announced on Sunday. “Our hospital apologises again to the patient and her family,” a...

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