Guy mistakenly given vasectomy instead of minor process

Medics have experimented with to reverse the error but it is not recognized whether the reversal was effective. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

A man has been mistakenly given a vasectomy by medics who had been supposed to be doing a minor process on him, a hospital has admitted.

The patient, who has not been named, went to the Royal Liverpool hospital for a minor urological operation but was wrongly made sterile by a surgeon.

Medics tried to reverse the error but it is not acknowledged regardless of whether the reversal was productive.

Health bosses at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Believe in stated they have apologised unreservedly to the patient.

They mentioned an inner investigation into the incident has been launched and the responsible surgeon has been suspended from carrying out operations pending the result.

An operation performed on the wrong physique part is classed as a “in no way occasion” by well being officials. The incidents are regarded by the government as so critical they need to in no way come about. Between April and September final 12 months there have been 148 such incidents recorded by NHS England.

A vasectomy is a minor operation, exactly where the tubes that carry sperm from a man’s testicles to the penis are cut, blocked or sealed. It is attainable for a vasectomy to be reversed but the achievement fee is about fifty five%.

NHS guidance states: “Even if a surgeon manages to join up the vas deferens tubes once again, pregnancy may nonetheless not be possible. This is why you should be certain just before going ahead with the vasectomy.”

The health care director of the Trust, Dr Peter Williams, stated: “We can verify that a patient who was scheduled to have different minor urological method was wrongly provided a vasectomy. We drastically regret the distress that this has brought on him. We have apologised unreservedly to the patient and we are offering him our full assistance.

“It is our duty, in the ideal interests of the patient, to uphold their confidentiality, for that reason we can’t provide any additional detail without their agreement.

“This is a critical incident and we are investigating this entirely to recognize why it occurred and how we can make certain it does not happen again. We consider any incident such as this really significantly and report them at the highest level in the Believe in and to our regulators.

“Because this incident, the surgeon has not been carrying out any operations, pending the findings of the investigation. In addition we are carrying out program checks on compliance with the WHO [World Health Organisation] checklist and our surgical teams are compliant.”

Guy mistakenly given vasectomy instead of minor process