A woman who had ligation surgery at a hospital in Dongguan’s Qingxi Town in 2010 is suing the hospital after getting pregnant three times since. The first and third pregnancies ended in abortions, the second was an inviable pregnancy that led to her requiring life-saving surgery, Guangzhou Daily reports.

After having a child, Mrs. Yang went to get the ligation surgery done in March 2010. In December of that year, Yang discovered she was pregnant, so went to the same hospital to get an abortion. In July 2011, she discovered she was pregnant again and this time it was an ectopic pregnancy, an inviable pregnany that is dangerous to the woman. The same hospital carried out an operation on her left fallopian tube.

In October 2011 Yang, who had two children after marrying in 1998, discovered she was pregnant again and this time had to go to another hospital to get an abortion.

She is now suing the hospital for 170,000 yuan, claiming that they botched the initial ligation surgery and the subsequent pregnancies and operations had had major impact on her health and finances. The paper learnt at Dongguan No.3 People’s Court yesterday that the hospital was only ordered to pay 8000 yuan in damages.

The court reasoned that ligation surgery does not have a 100% succes rate anyway, but it did rule that during the surgery on Yang’s left fallopian tube in 2011, the surgeons should also have operated on her right fallopian tube.

It is not yet known whether Yang will appeal.