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The Yeovil Hospital, belonging to public health, has admitted its responsibility after a patient underwent gynecological surgery without proper anesthesia and has suffered, since then, post-traumatic stress, since she endured enormous pain during it.

The woman explained that when the surgeon " made a cut in my belly button and I felt an immediate intense pain; I started screaming , but nobody noticed because I was wearing an oxygen mask."

The events took place in the public hospital of Yeovil, a city of about 45,000 inhabitants, in southern Somerset, in England, in the United Kingdom.

"I've been suffering horrible nightmares , " said the woman. "I have a recurring image of lying on the operating table, screaming with many people around me watching and nobody helps me."

The patient, over 30 years old who wants to remain anonymous, suffers "recurrent nightmares", after feeling how her skin had been cut during the surgery, so she decided to put her case in the hands of a law firm specializing in errors doctors.

"I wake up three times a week sweating and very scared," while I sleep at night. In addition, the woman said that she is now "very nervous and paranoid with doctors" , and that her confidence in them has been completely "shattered."

An increase in blood pressure alerted staff about the patient's discomfort when she was at the operating table, but the procedure continued, said Irwin Mitchell law firm.

His lawyer said the surgeon had expressed surprise in the operating room because the woman had received an epidural anesthetic instead of general anesthesia for the gynecological surgery she was undergoing.

"The surgeon said that it was something that he had not seen before in this type of intervention so that the patient's fear and anxiety was exacerbated when he began to feel pain during the procedure," added Elise Burvill of the firm.

Moreover, her lawyer believes that when the surgeon was aware that she was awake "they could - and should - have put general anesthesia at that time to avoid more pain and trauma," British media such as the BBC and inews report.

"We are sorry if this patient suffered any anguish," the hospital apologized, who accepted his responsibility in the case but has not yet reached a compensation agreement for the damage caused.

The National Health Service (NHS), owner of the Yeovil hospital center, attributed the error to a communication protocol failure. "It seems that a communication problem led to the use of a different anesthetic than is normally required for such an operation."

"However, this case has not yet been resolved with the plaintiff and therefore we will not discuss this further," he said.

"We carry out more than 15,000 operations a year, many of which save lives, and we take pride in the highest possible standards of care and safety," they reiterated from NHS.

"Although nothing will change what has happened to me, I just hope that lessons can be learned so that no one else faces similar problems in the future, " said the woman.

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