Scouser now firing blanks

A patient at Broadgreen Hospital was given a vasectomy by mistake when the wrong man was brought into theatre, a medical tribunal heard.

A catalogue of blunders meant the patient’s identity was not properly checked and the surgeon did not realise his mistake until too late.

Now Dr Nanikram Vaswani faces being struck off after the General Medical Council (GMC) claimed the patient was left “physically and emotionally traumatised” by the ordeal.

Dr Vaswani, an associate specialist in urology, admitted four misconduct charges .

He was meant to be removing scar tissue from the patient, known only as Patient A, but changes to the operating theatre list meant the wrong man was called in and given a vasectomy instead.