5 patients die within month of surgery at Sendai hospital

SENDAI, Japan - Taiichiro Meguro (L), head of Sendai Kosei Hospital in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, briefs reporters April 27 on the deaths of five people who underwent gastrointestinal surgery at the hospital between January and February this year. The patients died within a month of the operations.

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