An Austrian court imposed a fine on surgery after "amputation of the wrong leg" for an elderly patient.
The 43 -year -old surgery said that this happened due to a "human error", but the judge found her guilty, and accused her of "grave neglect", and fined her 2,700 euros (3 thousand dollars), with a suspension of the payment of half of the amount, according to a spokesman for the court.In the city of Linz, northern Austria, on Wednesday, according to the France Presse office in Vienna, which was quoted by the Guardian newspaper.
The surgery has placed a mark on the wrong leg, for the 82 -year -old patient, for her amputation before the operation, which occurred last May in the town of Freshtat, and the error was observed two days after the surgery..
The court also ruled a compensation of 5,000 euros ($ 5700), for the widow of the patient who died before the case reached the court..
The error surgery attributed a defect in the operating room.She has since moved to another clinic, and she can appeal the ruling.
Last May, the Austrian Freshtat clinic blamed the human error and described it as a "tragic mistake", according to the "Guardian" newspaper..
She said that the patient was suffering from many diseases, and he had previous diseases of his legs, to the extent that his left leg should have been amputated.
The clinic explained, "We were very shocked (...) Despite the service quality guarantee standards, the wrong leg was amputated, "adding that" the error was first noticed while changing the bandage. ".
She stressed that "we have to discover how this failure and this error can occur."."I would openly apologize here," the clinic medical director of the clinic Norbert Freich told a news conference..
The clinic said, "It seems that the error had occurred shortly before the operation, when the leg was marked for amputation.".
"Unfortunately, the error that was amputated by the right leg instead of the left has occurred as a result of a series of unfortunate conditions," and confirmed that it "will achieve what happened and we will review its standards.".
The clinic indicated then (before the patient's death), that there is a "planned operation soon", and psychological assistance was provided to the patient and he still has to undergo another surgery for the pyramid of his left leg..