A woman who had her kidney stolen after allegedly being conned into having operations for colon cancer, is still fighting for compensation seven years on.
Xu Xiuying, 48, only discovered she had just one kidney during a routine X-ray when she complained of backache.
But when a neighbour alerted Xu, from the city of Xiangcheng in
central China’s Henan province, to a scandal involving a trade in stolen
kidneys she looked at the matter again.
She realised that unscrupulous doctors had removed her healthy organ and sold it on the black market.
Xu said: "I thought it was a result of a genetic defect and assumed I
had been born like that, so I didn't think any more of it."
Angry Xu, who has found she had two healthy kidneys in 2006 by
looking at medical records held by her doctor, was told that she wrongly
had colon cancer and faced major operations.
She was admitted to two hospitals
over a period of 12 months, undergoing a seven hour operation in the
first and more treatment in the second, and is now unsure when exactly
her kidney was stolen. It was during treatment at a third hospital that she discovered she
had a kidney missing from her body, and realised that it could only have
happened during treatment at either of two hospitals.
As neither hospital will admit responsibility, she is having to sue both of them for compensation for her lost kidney.
A recent offer of a small amount of compensation by one of the hospitals has been turned down by Xu.
A judicial review confirmed her kidney was removed during surgery and
that she was entitled to compensation, but the courts are refusing to
rule on who should pay it because of the lack of evidence over which
hospital was to blame. ...DailyMirror
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