Doctors posted at a sub-district hospital in Indian-controlled Kashmir removed gallbladder instead of vermiform appendix from a patient during a surgery, local media reported Friday.

A 25-year-old female patient Amina Tuesday complained of severe pain in her abdomen, after which she was admitted at sub-district hospital in Ganderbal, 22 km north of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir.

According to local daily Rising Kashmir, family members said doctors informed them her vermiform appendix needs to be removed.

However, the patient's husband was shocked after he came to know that doctors had removed gallbladder instead of vermiform appendix during the surgery.

The negligence of doctors was protested by family members of the patient.

The chief medical officer in Ganderbal, Dr. Mehmooda Kar, said she had constituted a committee to investigate into the incident.

Earlier this month, a woman gave birth to a child in a passenger taxi after she was turned away by a doctor at this hospital saying the delivery date was still not due.