Baby with lotus seed shell stuck in mouth misdiagnosed with tumour at top hospital in China

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A major hospital in China has been engulfed in scandal after a senior doctor misdiagnosed a baby with a tumour that turned out to be a lotus seed shell stuck in his mouth. The 11-month-old child, surnamed Chen, was waiting for surgery to remove the “tumour” when its true identity was discovered by accident. During a later check-up at a...

A doctor and hospital in China are accused of malpractice after telling parents their baby had a tumour, later found to be a lotus seed shell.A major hospital in China has been engulfed in scandal after a senior doctor misdiagnosed a baby with a tumour that turned out to be a lotus seed shell stuck in his mouth.

He told the family he believed the lump was a “congenital tumour” and recommended surgery to remove it and a biopsy, the boy’s medical records revealed. The family took the child to the Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital where a doctor “checked his mouth multiple times and touched the lump with a cotton bud when it suddenly fell out,” said the father.

 

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