A woman says she will have nightmares for the rest of her life after an horrific operation gone wrong at the Alice Springs Hospital.

During the ordeal Rebecca Jones, 24, claims she woke up during abdominal surgery and could feel every cut of the surgeon’s knife, the Centralian Advocate reports.

But she was unable to scream for help as the anaesthesia had paralysed her.

Ms Jones said she woke up just as doctors were about to start the full operation. She was paralysed and could not open her eyes, but could hear and feel everything.

“I was very aware of what was happening to me,” she said.

“I thought the doctors had woken me up because the surgery was over – I quickly realised that was not the case.

“It first hit me when I tried to take a breath. I couldn’t move and started to panic. I could feel them cutting me open. I can’t describe how it felt. I’ve never felt anything like it before.

“I was freaked out. Then I actually managed to move my hand and someone in the room noticed it.

“He said, ’she’s just moved her hand’. But they kept going. I was trying to scream, to do anything.”

The hospital’s general manager Vicki Taylor has refused to meet with Ms Jones over the issue and refused to be interviewed.

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