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Cuban doctor depressed after surgical error

Jan 11, 2011 News

An investigation has been launched by senior medical officials at the Suddie Public Hospital into the case of a surgical instrument being left in a woman.
The authorities said that contrary to what was previously reported by this newspaper, the instrument was not a pair of surgical scissors. They said that the instrument was discovered lodged inside Alicia Benjamin, a 29-year-old mother of nine, for almost ten days.
“Should the Suddie Public Hospital lose the services of the Cuban Gynecologist who performed the surgery, Essequibians would be confronted with a detrimental situation,” one senior doctor disclosed.
According to the doctor, additional pressure would be also placed on the foreign team and their colleagues at Suddie. The locals would be left ‘hanging’, the doctor said.
The Medical Superintendent attached at the Suddie Public Hospital said that incident was caused by human error and had it not been for that doctor’s expertise and 35 years of experience, the 29-year-old woman could have unfortunately lost her life.
“She came in a critical condition and the Cuban did everything in his capacity to save her life,” the doctor explained.
The doctor, who is also a certified Gynaecologist and surgeon, said that the Cuban doctor deals with all of the high risks pregnancy cases on the Essequibo Coast.
And he is also tasked with the responsibility to deal with obstetrics cases and emergency surgeries, including hysterectomies.
The doctor said that he Cuban is currently depressed over the whole situation but if he is to be removed from the Suddie Public Hospital, Essequibians would suffer.
There would be an increase in the referrals of all the pregnancies to Georgetown, since the practicing doctors cannot deal with those technical cases.
“Should he be sent back to Cuba or removed from the Suddie Public hospital, the hospital will be forced to refer all the high risks cases in the future to Georgetown.”
In the first instance, when the 29-year-old was first admitted at the Suddie Public Hospital, that doctor was present. “He actually saved that woman’s life, because she was admitted in a critical condition.”
That was an unfortunate incident. It was not a deliberate act by that doctor, the senior doctor stressed.
The senior doctor said that the incident should not have happened and officials have already explained to the relatives of the mother who has since been referred to Georgetown and is in a stable condition.
Alicia Benjamin, of Ondeerneeming Sand Pitt, Essequibo Coast, was admitted to the Suddie Public Hospital, on December 23, last, after complaining of severe abdominal pains.
According to the senior doctor, Benjamin was first operated on by the Cuban doctor, to have the baby removed from her Fallopian tube. It was during that surgery that the surgical instrument was accidentally lodged inside her.
It was later removed by the same Cuban doctor. The doctor said both surgeries were successful and the patient is presently recuperating at the Georgetown Public Hospital. “One unfortunate incident does not make him a bad doctor.”
The doctor is said to have performed 200 surgeries on the Essequibo Coast, without any complications, the senior official said.

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