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A four-year-old Abbots boy suffered an horrific ordeal after having to be rushed to hospital to repair an earlier operation that went wrong. Jack Del Greco, son of Paul and Anita, who live on Hazelwood Lane, had to be taken to hospital by ambulance after Anita spotted blood down by his waist.  This was the result of an earlier orchidopex, which is a procedure in which a boy's undescended testicles are surgically pulled from the abdomen down into the scrotum.  Following the surgery,  the surgeon told Paul and Anita that Jack had two incisions, one on his lower side, which had been closed by dissolvable stitches, and the other under his scrotum ,which had been glued. The operation was supposed to be a routine 20-30 minute procedure, but ended up taking an hour and a half after a large hernia was found.  They left the day surgery at 5.30pm that evening, and would have hoped that Jack could rest and recuperate.  However, at 10pm, Anita noticed that Jack was uncomfortably hot, and worse still, spotted blood around his waist area.  She looked at his earlier surgery and noticed that, to her horror, his testicle was protruding.  After being rushed to Watford General, Jack was taken to surgery at 1am to repair the wound, and was subsequently placed on a drip. With the surgery complete, the next thing on the minds of Paul and Anita was how on earth something like this could happen?  When they questioned the surgeon, he simply stated that the glue had not worked in the first operation.  The hospital have said they will launch an internal investigation. A letter from the West Herts Hospitals said sutures were used in the first operation and not glue, and also stated Jack would have been regularly checked following the operation.  The family are adamant that at no time were suture used in the first operation, and this was confirmed by the surgeon who carried out the second piece of surgery.Jack was left traumatised by the whole ordeal, but is now well after recovering from his nightmare.  The family have been advised to lodge a complaint by PALS (Patient Advice and Liaison Services) and will consider pursuing the possibility of compensation.

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