A Hong Kong hospital has launched an investigation after an elderly patient with colon cancer died three weeks after surgeons carried out a medical procedure on the wrong organ.
Tseung Kwan O Hospital said on Friday the 85-year-old transverse colon cancer patient died on Tuesday after undergoing stoma surgery on February 7. The procedure involved creating a surgical opening to alleviate an intestinal obstruction.
In the time between the operation and her death, the patient was monitored in the…