A 74-year-old Army veteran from Ohio sues a hospital, alleging surgeons amputate the wrong leg during an operation. The lawsuit says the procedure should have been performed on the opposite leg from the one that was amputated.
NBC News reports the plaintiff accuses hospital doctors of performing the amputation on the incorrect side. The Times of India similarly says the surgery was intended for her right leg but resulted in the amputation of her left leg.
Both accounts describe the same core allegation: that a surgical error leads to an unintended amputation. The outlets do not provide additional details in the available text about the hospital’s response, the timeline of the surgery, or the outcome of any internal review, and the reporting focuses on the filing of the lawsuit and the claim that the wrong side was operated on.
