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Hospital criticised for using iPhone light during schoolgirl operation | Daily Star BOTCHED: A teenager claims a doctor failed to remove a lump from her lip with an iPhone light

Georgia Henderson was left for six hours in a waiting room with blood pouring from a lip lesion – known as a pyogenic granuloma – with gauze pads to stem the flow.

When a doctor finally arrived he took her into a room nearby to remove the lump.

Georgia and her mum Kathryn were stunned when the consultant asked a colleague to shine the torch from their iPhone onto her lip so he could see to perform the procedure with a scalpel. TOOLS: A spokesman said doctors use handy sources of bright light

“They got an iPhone torch and shone it on my lip and were trying to cut the lump off”

Georgia Henderson

Her lip was cut, then stitched and she was allowed to leave Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary.

But when she got home she saw the lump had not been removed.

The teen, from Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, said: ''They got an iPhone torch and shone it on my lip and were trying to cut the lump off.

''They stitched it up but looking at it afterwards it is still there. ''They haven't taken it off. They didn't really do anything.''

Customer services manager Kathryn, 37, said the doctor used the iPhone after moaning there was not enough light for him to see to carry out the procedure.

''I thought we might be about to move into another room but he asked his colleague to get out her phone and shine the light on Georgia's face,'' she said.

''I thought it was really weird and that surely they had a room with proper lighting it could be done in. NOT RIGHT: The girl could tell when she got home the lump was not removed

''But Georgia was becoming distressed and we just wanted the bleeding to stop and to be able to go home.

''I could see straight away that it didn't look right and didn't seem to have removed it.

''The whole process was very strange and I think questions need to be answered on why it was done using a mobile phone instead of proper hospital lighting.''

After complaining to the hospital about the iPhone op Georgia was referred to a dental clinic which in turn sent her back to the infirmary. UNHAPPY: The hospital said unhappy parents need to talk it out with them

The family then tried to go private but surgeons declined to operate on Georgia due to her age.

She is now on a waiting list for another op.

A spokesman for Newcastle Hospitals Trust said emergency patients were usually treated within four hours in order of seriousness.

''Our doctors often use pen torches to get bright light onto an area and a doctor may have used an iPhone in the same way, getting bright directable light to better illuminate the area,'' he said.

''If a parent is unhappy about the treatment we have provided to their child we would urge them to talk to us.''