Child’s healthy kidney wrongly removed

ONE of the country’s top children’s hospitals has taken full responsibility for wrongly removing a child’s healthy kidney during surgery.

An independent review at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, by London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital, looked into the events last spring when a child with a poorly-functioning right kidney was “incorrectly listed” by a consultant general surgeon for a left-sided kidney removal.

The operation was carried out the next day, after the parents gave consent, by a Specialist Registrar in paediatric surgery, who had not seen the patient.