97,000 People Have This Operation Each Year – Here’s What Happens When It Goes Wrong
But unlike the issues around vaginal mesh that have hit headlines, there are no plans for a Government audit into hernia mesh. In December of that year, she had her first of two hernia mesh operations. According to data from NHS digital, more than 97,000 hernia mesh operations are completed in England each year. She has written to the NHS’s Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) to complain about the treatment she received and ask “what went wrong” with her two hernia mesh operations. It has left me a different person.”PhotoGraphyKM via Getty Images A piece of surgical mesh, such as that used in hernia mesh operations.
Source: Huffington Post April 29, 2018 07:35 UTC
