UP doctor leaves towel in patient's abdomen during C-section, probe ordered
Amroha: In a shocking incident, a doctor in Uttar Pradesh's Amroha Bans Kheri village allegedly left a towel inside a woman's stomach after conducting a cesarean surgery at Saifee Nursing Home. Following the complaint, a probe was ordered by the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Rajeev Singhal.
According to the CMO, the doctor, allegedly left the towel in the belly of Nazrana after conducting her operation at Saifee Nursing Home, which he used to run without permission in the Naugawana Sadat police station area in Amroha.
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As per the information, the towel was left inside Nazrana’s stomach due to alleged negligence of the medical staff and after the lady complained about abdominal pain, he kept her admitted for five more days and cited that she was facing this stomach ache due to cold outside.
When her health did not improve even after coming home, her husband Shamsher Ali took her to another private hospital in Amroha where they came to know about the real truth behind Narana’s stomach ache and after another operation, got the towel removed.
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