Varanasi, May 1 -- The Institute of Medical Sciences-Banaras Hindu University (IMS-BHU) has initiated disciplinary action against 14 staff members after a 71-year-old woman was mistakenly taken to the wrong operation theatre earlier this March.

Radhika Devi, a resident of Ballia, who was admitted for a spinal tumour surgery, was erroneously shifted to the orthopaedics operation theatre (OP) instead of neurosurgery due to a mix-up with another patient of the same name, an 82-year-old woman admitted for hip surgery.

According to a fact-finding committee, the medical team made an incision on her hip before realising the error. The incision was immediately stitched, and she was sent back to neurosurgery, where she later underwent the planne...