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29 March 2024

One-metre gauze found inside woman’s belly

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Doctors at a Saudi hospital forgot a one-metre-long medical gauze inside the abdomen of a local woman following her delivery in a Cesarean operation last week.

The woman and her baby were discharged in good condition two days after delivery at the hospital in the southern province of Jazan but she started to feel excruciating pains a day later, Alsaudeh Arabic language daily said.

“She returned to hospital and an X-ray showed there was a gauze nearly one metre long inside her abdomen,” the paper said.

It said doctors had to operate on her again to remove the gauze and quoted the woman’s father Salim Oraibi as accusing the female doctor and nurses of endangering his daughter’s life and calling for action against them.