Doctors Leave Pair Of Scissors In Woman's Abdomen, It Is Found 12 Years Later
NDTV
The pair of scissors was left in the woman's abdomen by doctors who conducted an appendicitis operation in 2012.
Having undergone surgery to remove her appendix to ease the pain she was feeling, a woman from Sikkim continued to suffer for over a decade more and several doctors failed to diagnose why. When the diagnosis was finally revealed earlier this month, it shocked her and her family - the 45-year-old had a pair of surgical scissors in her abdomen, left behind by doctors who conducted the appendicitis operation in 2012.
The woman's husband said she had undergone the procedure at the Sir Thutob Namgyal Memorial (STNM) Hospital in Gangtok in 2012 and continued to have bouts of pain in her abdomen. She consulted many doctors, who gave her medication, but the pain would inevitably return.
On October 8, she went to the STNM hospital again and an X-ray revealed the surgical scissors in her abdomen.
