Surgeon Removed Baby’s Bladder By Accident – Manchester Evening News

A baby girl will have to use a catheter for the rest of her life after a surgeon accidentally removed 90 per cent of her bladder, a disciplinary panel heard.

Dr Pierina Kapur, 43, mistakenly removed the majority of the tot’s bladder when she was trying to repair a hernia.

The consultant paediatric surgeon admitted the blunder, which happened while she worked at Manchester Children’s Hospital in Pendlebury.

The infant, from Salford, was seven weeks old in October 2008, when she was admitted for repairs to hernias on each side of her stomach.

Following the operation she did not pass urine for more than 35 hours and developed a rash and high temperature.

The General Medical Council panel heard that the patient, now 18 months old, has had several procedures since Dr Kapur’s mistake, and will now rely on a catheter tube to pass urine for the rest of her life.

Dr Kapur admitted that her actions during the operation were below the standard to be expected of a reasonably competent consultant paediatric surgeon.

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