A surgeon who gave a man a vasectomy by mistake has been sacked with doctors admitting an attempt to reverse the blunder failed.
The horrific mistake happened when the man was undergoing a minor operation at Liverpool’s Broadgreen Hospital earlier this year.
The hospital “apologised unreservedly” to the patient at the time – but it is now understood the man has been told a procedure to correct the error did not work.
This means that although he may still be able to have children through IVF he will not be able to have children naturally.
The urology department at Broadgreen Hospital has now admitted the vasectomy error was just one of five botched operations in twelve months
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