A lawyer in Germany claims surgeons left up to 16 objects in her client's body after an operation for prostate cancer.
Annette
Corinth says doctors removed a needle, compresses and surgical strips
from banker Helmut Brecht after his wounds failed to heal properly
following surgery in 2009.
The 77-year-old
ex-banker died last year and his family is seeking DM80 000 ($106 216)
damages for his suffering, plus costs, from the Henriettenstift hospital
in Hannover.
A spokesman for the Protestant Church-linked organization that runs the hospital rejected the claims.
Achim
Balkhoff told The Associated Press Thursday the objects couldn't have
been left in the patient's body during the operation because the
equipment wasn't in use at the hospital.
He added that the compensation demands were “unusually high” for such a case.
Could this be true, whole 16 items? Where the surgical team asleep?
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