Swab left inside Caesarean mother

[Setarime]

A woman has undergone an operation to remove a swab left inside her during a Caesarean delivery.
Sahar Asma Sarfaraz of Beckenham, south London, gave birth to her first child Sabrina at Princess Royal University Hospital in Orpington on Tuesday.

The 26-year-old complained of a severe pain soon after and three days later an X-ray revealed the hankerchief-like swab, which was removed on Friday.

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Heads will roll for this, this is a stupid mistake to make! A thing like that can be avoided if you do a swab count before and after the surgery!!

[Zafiras]

thats disguisting not to mention dangerous!!!

[TGLucario]

thats sick!

[jsdadx2]

Someone should be watching and making sure that something like that did not happen---someone did not do their job.

Its procedure to count the swabs before and after by 2 theatre nurses, but, this mistake happens often, sometimes theatre implements are left inside the patients.

[EmperorStyleS2k]

that is pretty horribe, but I do hear, things like that occur often.

[Setarime]

unfortunately things are left inside of patients, it SHOULDNT happen but it does! But just because it does happen doesnt make it ok, it is still a horrendous lack of attention on the part of the scrub nurses and surgeons