Prague hospital apologizes after 'tragic' abortion mistake. One of the women, who was pregnant, had come to the hospital for a regular check-up.
The other had come for a curettage, a tissue removal procedure, which is also a method of terminating a pregnancy. Hospital staff confused them and performed the procedure on the pregnant patient, who lost her fetus. The case resembles that of Thi-Nho Vo, a French woman of Vietnamese origin, wholost her baby in 1991 following a similar error.