90-year-old Oz woman has wrong leg amputated by docs

LONDON - Prosecutors have revealed that a 90-year-old Austrian woman had the wrong leg amputated by doctors.

The operating surgeon and a second doctor, who allegedly made the mistake when planning the operation, have been charged with bodily injury caused by negligence. They are expected to go on trial in November.

The now 91-year-old woman, who suffered from vascular disease, had gone into hospital in the Tyrolean town of Sankt Johann on June 16 to have a leg amputated.

After the procedure however, the doctors realised they had removed the wrong limb, reports the Telegraph.

The Austrian hospital said human error as well as a breakdown in safety measures were to blame for the mistake, and the surgeon who handled the procedure was suspended after 25 years on the job.

The elderly woman finally had the correct limb amputated in a second operation a few days later. (ANI)