Doctors have left gauze weighing one kilogramme in a mother's abdomen following a caesarean operation

A case where a piece of gauze weighing about one kilogramme was found in the abdomen of a mother after an operation was reported from the Mullaitivu Hospital.

Her husband stated that his wife, who was admitted to the hospital for childbirth, underwent a caesarean operation.As the pain in her abdomen did not go away even after many days, he took her to the hospital on 12 occasions. Following an x-ray of the abdomen, it was revealed that her abdomen had been stitched, leaving a piece of gauze weighing about one kilogramme inside the abdomen, after the caesarean operation.