A pregnant woman was wrongly given surgery that made her lose her baby and left her sterile, the Medical Council heard yesterday.
The woman, named only as Mrs Yiu, cried as she described how gynaecologist Dr Albert To Chung-fung told her she needed an urgent operation when she visited his clinic in Mongkok on February 17, 1997.
Mrs Yiu, then 39, was about six weeks pregnant with what would have been her first child by her second husband.
But a hysterectomy - involving the removal of her uterus, right ovary and right fallopian tube - was performed within hours of seeing Dr To.
She told the council that during a 10-minute consultation, Dr To said surgery to remove fibroids, or a tumour on her uterus, had to be done immediately.
He did not offer her the option of waiting until the baby was born and advised her to have her entire uterus removed to prevent repeat infections, Mrs Yiu said.