A baby has been left completely blind after a surgeon reportedly removed the wrong eye.
One-year-old Fernando Jonathan Valdez Ayala had a potentially life-threatening tumour in his left eye and could not see out of it.
He was receiving chemotherapy but his surgeon Armando Cisneros Espinoza decided it was not working and the eye would have to be removed.But he removed the baby’s fully functional right eye instead leaving him blind.
The mix-up happened at the Medical Unit of High Speciality Mexican Social Security Institute in Ciudad Obregon, in the northwest Mexican state of Sonora.
The baby’s horrified parents are now suing on the grounds of medical negligence and are demanding compensation.
Espinoza defended the operation, saying he removed the right eye because he saw a tumour in it but his parents believe it is a cover-up as he still has h left eye with a life-threatening tumour.
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