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A 59 year-old Nigerian senior surgeon Dr. Lawal Haruna has removed a woman's ovary instead of her appendix.
He blamed "poor vision" for the accident, and told his superiors it was a “trifling error.”
The United Kingdom resident doctor has been struck off after the mistake. The unnamed “Patient B,” who was not of child-bearing age, was admitted to the hospital with abdominal pain.
The incident in March 2015 was one of a series of botched operations carried out by Haruna over two years, which were so poorly executed colleagues described them as ‘never events.’
According to an expert report, “Dr. Haruna was mistaken in his identification of the appendix and removed the ovary and tube in error. This is a serious omission and a breach of duty of care.
“To have mistaken a fat pad for the appendix and to have failed to deal adequately with the pathology suggests a standard of care which is seriously below that expected of a reasonably competent Staff Grade in General Surgery.”
Haruna, who says he has 25 years’ experience, dismissed the incidents as “trifling errors” and said the appendix and fallopian tubes were similar “worm-like structures which lie in a similar area.”
But at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, a disciplinary panel found him guilty of misconduct and banned him from treating patients.
He blamed "poor vision" for the accident, and told his superiors it was a “trifling error.”
The United Kingdom resident doctor has been struck off after the mistake. The unnamed “Patient B,” who was not of child-bearing age, was admitted to the hospital with abdominal pain.
The incident in March 2015 was one of a series of botched operations carried out by Haruna over two years, which were so poorly executed colleagues described them as ‘never events.’
According to an expert report, “Dr. Haruna was mistaken in his identification of the appendix and removed the ovary and tube in error. This is a serious omission and a breach of duty of care.
“To have mistaken a fat pad for the appendix and to have failed to deal adequately with the pathology suggests a standard of care which is seriously below that expected of a reasonably competent Staff Grade in General Surgery.”
Haruna, who says he has 25 years’ experience, dismissed the incidents as “trifling errors” and said the appendix and fallopian tubes were similar “worm-like structures which lie in a similar area.”
But at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, a disciplinary panel found him guilty of misconduct and banned him from treating patients.
