Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2015-02-22
A cartoon depicting a patient's kidney being stolen during a surgery at a hospital in Henan. (Photo/CFP) |
A woman in
China's Henan province claims that one of her kidneys was stolen during one of
her past surgeries, but the case remains unsolved despite the lawsuit she filed
against the hospitals in 2011, Hong Kong-based Hua Shang Daily reports.
Xu Xiuying,
a fruit vendor in Henan's Xiangcheng, first found out about her missing right
kidney during an ultrasound checkup in 2008, which was two years after she
underwent surgery to remove a benign tumor on her colon, the newspaper said.
Xu, who is
married to a teacher and has a son, underwent the surgery in the city's First
People's Hospital on Nov. 14, 2006. She began feeling pain around her waist and
back following the six-hour operation.
She had
another surgery to remove a uterine fibroid at another hospital in Xiangcheng
on Oct. 19, 2007, the newspaper added.
Some local
media reports said that Xu initially thought she was born with just one kidney
and did not become suspicious until 2011, when she learned about a doctor being
sentenced in another case for illegally selling human kidneys.
Several
checkups later confirmed that her right kidney had been removed. This discovery
led Xu to file a civil lawsuit against the two hospitals in 2011, seeking
damages on the grounds of a medical dispute.
The
criminal nature of the case required Xu to undergo a medical examination.
However, the report published by the examiners on June 2013 failed to
conclusively determine what happened to Xu and merely concluded that her kidney
was more likely to have been removed during her 2006 surgery.
An expert
also said the questionable circumstances of Xu's 2006 surgery, which included
the unusually long time it took to complete the operation, the extended length
of the incision and the prolonged period allotted for the blood tests
beforehand.
In
addition, the newspaper said that an ultrasound check was conducted on Xu's
kidneys before the 2006 surgery.
Conflicting
claims have arisen between the hospital and local authorities on whether an
investigation has already been initiated to resolve Xu's plight, even though
the medical report was submitted to authorities to pursue a criminal case in
2013, according to the newspaper.
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