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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bevan Hurley

Two-year-old girl died on operating table after San Francisco hospital was warned it couldn’t handle procedure

Helping Parents Heal

The parents of a two-year-old girl who died in an operating theatre after doctors at John Muir Health allegedly ignored warnings they were not equipped to perform her specialist surgery have launched legal action against the San Francisco hospital.

Tom and Truc-Co Jung’s daughter Ailee was diagnosed with cancer and had been receiving chemotherapy treatment when she underwent a complicated procedure known as liver resection surgery at John Muir Health in November 2019.

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