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Story summary
- An 85-year-old patient at Tseung Kwan O Hospital in Hong Kong died three weeks after a stoma surgery due to a surgical error.
- The stoma surgery occurred on February 7 to relieve an intestinal obstruction, and she was moved from ICU to rehabilitation on February 16.
- A March 3 emergency CT scan showed the stoma was in the stomach rather than the transverse colon, and the hospital launched an investigation.
