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Elderly man has wrong leg amputated at Austrian clinic Guardian staff and agecies © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images
An Austrian hospital amputated the wrong leg of a patient, it said on Thursday, blaming human error for what it called a “tragic mistake”.
The elderly patient was suffering from many illnesses, the Freistadt Clinic, in a town of the same name near the Czech border, said in a statement. Previous sicknesses have affected his legs, to the point that his left leg required amputation. © Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images An Austrian clinic has apologised for mistakenly amputating the wrong leg of an elderly patient.
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A hospital in Austria amputated the wrong leg of an 82-year-old patient, having blamed human error for its tragic mistake .
The Freistadt Clinic said in a statement that the elderly patient had his right leg removed instead of his left.
Worse still, the patient must still undergo another operation to remove the left leg from mid-thigh.
According to Reuters, it is believed that the error was made shortly before the operation, when the wrong leg was marked.
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The clinic, located in the town of Freistadt near the Czech border, said: We are deeply shocked that on Tuesday, May 18, despite quality assurance standards, the wrong leg of an 82-year old man . was amputated.