These women hoped surgery would heal them - instead their treatment became a nightmare | 7.30

When women have surgery to fix gynaecological problems, the operation can have a profound effect, giving them back the lives they once had but in Canberra, several women have instead had the opposite experience – where the surgery that they thought would fix everything had rare complications, leading to more surgery, and more even worse problems. Anne Connolly has this story, produced by Sarah Curnow, from ABC Investigations.

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