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Human error likely cause of gauze being left in woman’s stomach after C-Section at Suddie Hospital – RHO
Kaieteur News – Human error may have been the cause of at least one woman suffering serious internal damage as a result of gauze being left in her stomach following a Caesarean ‘C’ section which took place at the Suddie Hospital in Region Two.
Regional Health Officer (RHO) told Kaieteur News that the incident is being investigated by the Ministry of Health, the Chief Medical Officer and the Guyana Medical Council.
Region Two’s Regional Health Officer (RHO), Dr. Rajeev Singh
He said the three entities will make a determination on the whether the doctor is culpable of negligible behaviour.
“It is truly unfortunate that the patient had to suffer what she did but I can’t say that the hospital policy is to be blamed for the operation going in the wrong direction, it is not a technical issue, it may be more as a result of a human error,” the RHO said.
In meantime, Dr. Singh said that the patient is being given as much care and attention, the Region can possibly offer.
“We await the results of the investigations to know of the fate of the medical staff responsible,” he added.
Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony told Kaieteur News recently that the matter is being investigated. He promised that a thorough investigation will be conducted into the unfortunate incident.
The RHO’s statements follow weeks after Sarah Campbell, a 24-year-old woman from Devonshire Castle; Essequibo Coast revealed that a bundle of gauze was left in her for six months after an emergency C-Section done. The woman told Kaieteur News that the gauze was eventually removed, but it left her with a hole in her intestines that leaks faeces.
Campbell said the incident happened after she was admitted to the maternity ward at the Suddie Public Hospital on June 24, 2022, due to high blood pressure. On June 25, 2022, she said that she was supposed to go into labour but was experiencing difficulty.
She told Kaieteur News that the medical staff tried to induce labour but after a failed attempt, they recommended a C-Section.
Not thinking too much of it, the young mother said she signed the consent form for the operation. She explained, “A doctor told me they don’t want to risk baby life anymore so I would have to do an emergency C-Section which I consented to because I want my baby to be ok”.
However, after the operation, the mother continued to experience severe pain and discomfort in her lower abdomen. She said that as a first-time mom, “I believed that it was because of the C-Section”. But the pain worsened and her stomach started to swell. This prompted the young mother to visit the Windsor Castle Health Centre to seek answers.
“I tell the doctor what’s happening to me and she examine the abdomen and she say it’s not normal and it shouldn’t be swollen and she tell me to do an ultrasound…I went at the Suddie Public Hospital where I did an ultrasound and the doctor say it’s a mass there…Still they weren’t sure what it was.
They give me pain tablets and I was sent home…,” Campbell said adding that it was after her condition continued to worsen after several visits to hospital that she was transferred to Georgetown Public Hospital where it was discovered that gauze from the C-Section she had months prior was still in her stomach.
As a result, the woman became the subject of at least six emergency operations to remove the gauze and fix the damage done to her intestines. However, the remedial surgeries were not successful and she continues to leak from her intestines.
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