By Selina Lum

A BRITISH transplant surgeon testifying for the family of a woman who died after donating a kidney to her husband stood firm in cross-examination yesterday, noting how the operating surgeons' testimonies did not gel with the autopsy findings.

When challenged that he could not prove her surgeons had used too many surgical clips, Professor Michael Nicholson, from the University of Leicester, retorted via video-conferencing that it was impossible to prove now that they had not.

The number of polymer clips the surgeons used to clamp Madam Narindar Kaur's renal artery to stop it from bleeding is one of the key issues raised in the medical negligence suit brought by her family against the two surgeons and the National University Hospital.

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