Mop left inside patient during Whipple's operation: Consumer Court slaps Rs 5 lakh compensation on NIMS
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The State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission in Telangana recently held the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) and its HOD of Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, guilty of medical negligence for allegedly leaving mop inside a patient's abdomen while conducting Pancreatico -Duodenectomy (Whipple's operation) back in 2009.
Although NIMS denied any negligence, the State Commission opined that there was no other way to explain how the Mop was found inside the patient's abdomen two and half years after the first surgery.
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