When the man was in theatre he was asked to drop his trousers and lie on the operating table. Photo / via People's Daily
When the man was in theatre he was asked to drop his trousers and lie on the operating table. Photo / via People's Daily
A man waiting anxiously for the birth of his baby outside a hospital ward in China was ushered into theatre by doctors and given an operation on his haemorrhoids in a case of mistaken identity.
The expectant father, named Mr Wang in reports, was mixed up with another patient onMonday who had completed the paperwork for the procedure and was waiting to be operated on.
Doctors at the Shenyang Hunnan Xinqu Hospital in China asked Wang to accompany them. However, the father to be thought he would be taken to a room to aid in his wife's birth.
The confusion was further fuelled by the fact the hospital only has two operation rooms and Wang thought he was being taken to the room where his wife was in labour, according to the state run People's Daily.
In the theatre the man was asked to drop his trousers and lie on the operating table.
