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Review into amputation underway after patient says wrong leg removed at Grace Hospital [Video]

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A patient safety review is underway after a 48-year-old man went in for an amputation of his right leg at Grace Hospital, but came out of the procedure to find out his left leg below his knee had been removed.

Jason Kennedy, a former commercial fisher, knows he may eventually lose both legs but he said his right foot was in worse condition due to a bone infection he lives with and that’s the one his doctor at a different hospital told him would have to be amputated.

“Coming out of anesthesia and when I woke up from my bed, my recovery area, I was in disbelief. Disbelief that they took the wrong leg,” Kennedy said. “I knew for a fact they did take the wrong leg.”

Kennedy, who has been living in Winnipeg but is originally from Bloodvein First Nation, said he went to Seven Oaks General Hospital on …

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