Surgery mix-up on knee and head patients in Tanzania

A Tanzanian hospital has mixed up two patients who share the same first name, resulting in a surgery blunder.

Emmanuel Didas, who was admitted for a knee operation after a motorbike accident, is now unconscious in intensive care after head surgery.



Meanwhile, chronic migraine sufferer Emmanuel Mgaya is recovering from an unplanned knee operation.

Doctors at Muhimbili National and Referral Hospital are unwilling to comment on the incident which occurred last week, but was not officially reported.

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