Pakistani woman dies after forceps removed

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HYDERABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani woman who had a pair of forceps removed from her abdomen after they were left there in an operation a year ago died from multiple complications on Tuesday, a hospital official said.

Shehzadi Shahidi Sultana, 30, had the forceps removed last month when they were discovered a year after she underwent a caesarean operation at a hospital in Jamshoro town, near the southern city of Hyderabad,to give birth to a baby girl.

But as a result of the operation to remove the forceps on February 22 at the same hospital, she developed an infection in her stomach and later died of heart failure from multiple complications, said medical superintendent Khalid Qureshi.

Qureshi told Reuters Sultana’s husband and brother had brought her back to the hospital last month after she complained of severe abdominal pain.

The cause of the pain was found to be a pair of forceps left in her abdomen since her caesarean operation, he added.

“We had appointed an inquiry committee to investigate how the forceps remained in her stomach and subsequently five doctors were found responsible for the neglect and suspended,” he said.

Police said the woman’s brother, Shadab Gul, had registered a case against the doctors with them.

Poor health facilities often lead to complications in Pakistan, particularly in rural areas.

About 30,000 women die in pregnancy or childbirth each year in Pakistan, one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world, according to the Asian Development Bank.

Ten times as many develop life-long pregnancy-related disabilities.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/07032006/325/pakistani-woman-dies-forceps-removed.html

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good gosh! how the heck do you leave forceps..! of all things..forceps in a woman’s stomach after she’s given birth!! that’s just dumb. :nono:

i hope the husband/brother of the lady sues the darn hospital. now who’s gonna look after the kids? jeez …

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This happens more than you think, accidently leaving items inside people after surgery.

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^ Don't be so cruel...

The cause of death is due to infections that occured after they tried to remove the forceps during second surgery..... that were by the way there for the last 1 year...

Of note...the first surgery during which they left the forceps was a C-Section,...

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very bad irresposible behaviour:nessy:

4 wives???
4 wives???
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underthedome - okay..i can understand that you can accidently leave some stuff - like maybe small thing like a ring or watch...but forceps! they are quite big....

goliko - i wonder why it took her a year to feel the pain of the foceps..maybe she went before, and the doctors didn't really do anything about it, until it was too late

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I'm not being cruel, it's a fact.

Aaj kya pakaaya/khaaya
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:confused:

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Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajeeon.

Very sad. :(

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The Tenth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) defines a maternal death as the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes.

The approach, with some variations, was used to develop estimates for maternal mortality in 1990 and 1995 and has been used again for generating these estimates for the year 2000. On the basis of the present exercise, the estimated number of maternal deaths in 2000 for the world was 529,000 (Table 1). These deaths were almost equally divided between Africa (251,000) and Asia (253,000), with about 4% (22,000) occurring in Latin America and the Caribbean, and less than 1% (2,500) in the more developed regions of the world. In terms of the maternal mortality ratio (MMR), the world figure is stimated to be 400 per 100,000 live births. By region, the MMR was highest in Africa (830), followed by Asia (330), Oceania (240), Latin America and the Caribbean (190), and the developed countries (20). The country with the highest estimated number of maternal deaths is India (136,000), followed by
Nigeria (37,000), Pakistan (26,000), the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ethiopia (24,000 each), the United Republic of Tanzania (21,000), Afghanistan (20,000), Bangladesh (16,000), Angola, China and Kenya (11,000 each), Indonesia and Uganda (10,000 each). These 13 countries account for 67% of all maternal deaths.

However, the number of maternal deaths is the product of the total number of births and obstetric risk per birth, described by the MMR. On a risk-per-birth basis, the list looks rather different. With the sole exception of Afghanistan, the countries with the highest MMRs are in Africa. The highest MMRs of 1,000 or greater, are, in order of magnitude, Sierra Leone (2,000), Afghanistan (1,900), Malawi (1,800), Angola (1,700), Niger (1,600), the United Republic of Tanzania (1,500), Rwanda (1,400), Mali (1,200), Central African Republic, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia and Zimbabwe (1,100 each), and Burkina Faso, Burundi, Kenya, Mauritania and Mozambique (1,000 each).

http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/publications/maternal_mortality_2000/mme.pdf

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:(

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hmmm y did it take 1 yr to feel the pain?

and I could be wrong but don't woman need to see a doc even after delivering a baby?

Its a sad one though..

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Pakistan should develop something like a suing-right for malpractices such as this, so docs hv their eyes open (!?) while operating on someone.

BTW--they can be left inside while putting the stitches, they r tedious so mostly docs tend to forget stuff during that step.

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^Yes that’s all true…she might be even having the pain too…but in pakistan,who cares even if the patient is dying…doctor community is very selfish there…

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I hate to say this but what were doctor paying attention to that they ACCIDENTLY left the forcep during surgery? :halo:

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i bet the doctors were stonned :D

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people can say whatever now....woh bechari too chalii gayee naa....really really sad

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Guys i am not defending the doctors but newspapers in pakistan have also published the names of the gynaecologists who were involved in the operation.The names of the doctors were published even before the inquiry report . There is rivalry in the medical profession because of private practice. The head of gynaecology who keeps a low profile and incidentally is from the minority community.

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This is not something that only happens in Pakistan. So those of us that have decided to chide in with attitude about how bad doctors are in Pakistan can just take a chill pill prescribed by me.

Surgery is not a simple process. The likelihood of gauze or other such instruments being left inside is very high. This is why all items are counted carefully by operating room nurses before surgical sites are closed.

I'm not suggesting that what happened is okay......just that it's not all that unbelievable or out of this world.

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I agree one or two years back there was a similar sort of case reported in australia where the the surgeons left a pair of scissors inside the body oa a patient it was only when the patient felt pain and his X ray revealed that he has a pair of scissors inside him.He was fortunate that he survived and sued the hospital administration.

Surgery is a tough job when the surgeon completes the operation the team assisting him/her counts the instruments used in the operation an error in counting may lead to the similar situation.