A
27 year old woman was forced to undergo an ovarian cyst removal surgical procedure
as a result of a misdiagnosis. She had been taken to a hospital after
complaining of severe abdominal pains and after the doctors couldn’t find
anything wrong with her, except the small cyst in her ovaries, they decided to
perform surgery so as to get rid of it.
However,
after surgery, the woman still continued to experience the pain. It got worse
as time passed until the doctors transferred her to another health clinic. It
later turned out that the ovarian cyst had nothing to do with her symptoms. It
was too small to cause any side effects. The surgery was thus an unnecessary
risk.
The
cause of the fever and pain was later discovered to be dengue fever. The woman
is currently in intensive care, still under treatment as she tries to recover
from both the dengue fever and the after-effects of abdominal surgery.
One
of the doctors pointed out:
"Had
she not undergone the operation for cyst, she would have been strong enough to
fight dengue on her own."
Of
course, the doctors have something to blame: lack of proper standardized
procedures to treat dengue fever!
