A man has been awarded £20,000 in compensation after he went into hospital for a bladder procedure and was mistakenly circumcised.
Terry Brazier, 70, was given the procedure after staff at Leicester Royal Infirmary mixed up his notes.
“I went in the surgery for some Botox and they ended up circumcising me,” he told the Daily Star.
“They didn’t know what to say when they found out they’d done it, they said they can’t send me back to the ward and they needed to talk to me.” He described it as “a real surprise”.
Brazier went into hospital for a cystoscopy, a procedure that involves looking inside the bladder using a thin camera before Botox is injected into the bladder wall. The Botox injections have the effect of partially paralysing the bladder, reducing urinary incontinence.
Brazier told the Star he was so distracted chatting to nurses that he did not realise he was getting a different procedure until it was too late.
Andrew Furlong, the medical director at University hospitals of Leicester NHS trust, said: “We remain deeply and genuinely sorry that this mistake occurred, and I would like to take this opportunity to once again apologise to Mr Brazier.
“We take events like this very seriously and carried out a thorough investigation at the time to ensure that we learnt from this incident and do all we can to avoid it happening again. Whilst money can never undo what happened, we hope this payment provides some compensation.”
