When Mr. Liu, a farmer living in eastern China, was severely injured in a tractor accident, he was sent to a hospital in the city of Xuzhou, where a doctor informed him that his right kidney had been shoved up into his chest and would need to be surgically returned to its proper position.
Hu Bo, chief surgeon at the Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College, told Liu that he had taken the kidney out for inspection, then put it back in his abdominal cavity once he confirmed its viability.
The next day, Liu went for a follow-up operation at the Shandong Provincial Hospital, where doctors found that his kidney was missing.
Because of his missing organ, Liu did not get his operation, and went back to the hospital in Xuzhou to investigate the matter, the Anhui Province-based Xin'an Evening News reported May 5.
