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A new mother was mistakenly fitted with a contraceptive coil in a surgery mix-up at an NHS hospital in Wales, it has been revealed.
The contraceptive blunder came just minutes after the woman had a baby by C-section in the hospital.
Labour-run NHS Wales described the coil mix-up at the Betsi Cadwaladr health board in North Wales as a 'never event'.
It was described as a 'serious, largely preventable patient safety incident that should not have occurred if preventative measures had been implemented'.
The health board outlined how a patient had a coil - an intrauterine device which prevents pregnancy - inserted after undergoing a Caesarean section.
It was described in the report as 'wrong procedure' planned for a different patient understood to have been admitted to Ysbyty Gwynedd hospital in Bangor. But a mistake had been made after the 'list order was changed due to the increase in category for this patient'.
A mother in a hospital in north Wales was mistakenly fitted with a contraceptive coil just minutes after giving birth [Stock picture]
A look at the birth control coil device which was wrongly fitted to the mother [Stock picture]
The coil blunder was one of three 'never events' for the