hospital staff confused them for their sick twin, a shocking report reveals. According to Birmingham Live, the healthy baby was terminated during a procedure at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust after doctors wrongly identified it as the unwell twin, who also died during the surgery.
The devastating case is one of 700 incidents across NHS England in which basic errors led to tragic outcomes, a Freedom of Information Act survey by the Sunday Express found.
Surgeons carried out the operation in order to try and save the healthier twin when it was discovered that its sibling had restrictive growth, increasing the chances of stillbirth and complications.
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