The employees liable for the mix-up have been suspended

A surprising mistake at a Prague hospital resulted in a overseas girl present process an abortion she by no means needed. CNN Prima Information reported that the four-month-pregnant girl arrived for a routine checkup on March twenty fifth at Bulovka College Hospital.

Extremely, a sequence of errors allowed her to be anesthetized and operated on, regardless of being the flawed affected person. Hospital employees, together with nurses, docs, a gynaecologist, and even the anesthesiologist,  did not determine her accurately. The hospital blames a language barrier for the nightmarish mix-up.

The wholesome pregnant girl was then subjected to a curettage, a kind of uterus surgical procedure and methodology of abortion, that was scheduled for the opposite affected person. Following the process, the lady miscarried. 

The media outlet reported that apart from gross employees negligence, a language barrier led to the visitors incident. 

Chatting with Czech media outlet Seznam Zpravy, gynaecologist and vice-chairman of the Czech Medical Chamber Jan Prada stated: ‘A Czech-speaking affected person would most likely actively resist the truth that she goes to bear a process that she doesn’t perceive’.

“The purpose should be to do a root evaluation, determine the causes, and set a course of in order that this by no means occurs once more,” David Marx, chair of the Czech Society for High quality in Healthcare, informed the information outlet. 

“In accordance with the findings to this point, because of a critical violation of inside rules on the a part of the staff involved, the surgical process was initiated on the incorrectly recognized affected person,’ Bulovka spokeswoman Eva Stolejda Libigerova informed CNN Prima Information.

The employees liable for the mix-up have been suspended and the hospital is investigating the incident. 

‘If violations of obligatory working procedures are revealed as a part of the continued inside investigation, particular people can be held personally liable for it,’ the spokeswoman added.