The parents of Fernando
Jonathan Valdez Ayala, from Mexico, have been left horrified after the incident
and are now suing on the grounds of medical negligence.
Their son was having
chemotherapy to treat a tumour in his left eye, but when Armando Cisneros
Espinoza decided the treatment was not working he chose to operate to take the
eye out – but instead removed the child’s fully functional right eye.
The mix-up happened at
the Medical Unit of High Specialty Mexican Social Security Institute in Ciudad
Obregon, in the northwest Mexican state of Sonora.
The operating Doctor says that he saw an issue with the
baby’s other eye, and decided to remove it on the spot…but still left the
problem eye intact, for some reason...
Fernando’s distressed mother Maria Marlene Ayala Quijano said:
‘Doctors started to treat him and decided that they were going to remove the
left eye when it was not working, but they removed the right one.
‘The doctor told us
that he had removed the right eye because he had seen a tumour in that eye as
well.
‘But we cannot believe
a tumour is going to suddenly appear in just a few hours in our son’s good eye,
and the left eye, that was supposed to be removed, is still there.
‘The doctor said that
he wanted to save his life and therefore he decided to remove the right eye.
‘They say that they
will look at the eye to check that there was a tumour there, but we plan to get
an independent test.
‘I feel impotence and
anger because my baby does not have a working eye anymore, and nobody can put
it back, it was his only healthy eye.’
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