BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court has ordered a hospital to pay compensation to a six-year-old girl after doctors removed her uterus instead of her appendix as planned, the Procuratorial Daily said in an edition seen on Wednesday. Hospital doctors made the error during the operation on Huang Xiaomei in March 1996, it said. The People`s High Court in the southeastern province of Fujian ruled on May 12 that the Longyan City First Hospital should pay 246,622 yuan ($29,713) in compensation to Huang, the newspaper said. Her parents filed a lawsuit against the hospital in December 1996 and a lower court ruled a year later that the hospital should pay 166,622 yuan to the girl, the newspaper said. But the defendant and the plaintiff appealed against the lower court`s ruling, it said, without giving further details. China`s urban residents earn an average of 1,533 yuan a month, according to a recent government survey.