adminChronicle visited the girl on her bed in Ward C5 on Tuesday afternoon where she said she was in great pain and was not being properly attended to.
The wound, which cuts across the lower abdomen under the navel, was discharging pus.
“After I delivered through operation I told them I felt something in my womb but they would not listen. I complained every day and I was told to stop eating which I did for six days but the pain would not stop.
I was again operated on, on 9 October and they said there was an abscess. I could not see what they removed because they had injected me but I believe they had left a pair of scissors because I felt the pain soon after the operation,” said the girl.
“The nurses are supposed to come to check on us regularly but sometimes they do not come or they just pass by. The doctors told them to dress the wound but up to now it has not been dressed. I am in serious pain.”
The girl dropped out of school while doing Form Three at a school in Umzingwane District after falling pregnant.
She said she had not been able to see her newly born baby, which is admitted in the special care in the Paediatric Unit.
The girl’s family was only allowed to see the baby on Tuesday.
The girl’s mother said she wanted answers and would sue the hospital if it is true that the doctors left a pair of scissors in her womb.
“They are saying it was an abscess but we are concerned because they have left the wound open for a long time. They should have used antibiotics to avoid bleeding and abscess. Initially they told us they had no injections and we bought them but to our surprise up to today the injections are still by the bedside,” said the mother.
She said it was painful to see her daughter writhing in agony on the hospital bed.
“Today they told us that we can transfer her to a private doctor but it looks like it’s too late. The nurses are arrogant sometimes when we ask them and I want answers from the hospital, failure to which I would sue them,” said the girl’s mother.
However, some said the pus could be a result of rusting of the scissors in the womb.
“They know it is not true that her problem was an abscess. If one delivers through Caesarian section the whole womb is opened and there is no way an abscess could develop. If you look at the wound it is very big. It may be true that they left a pair of scissors because these people are no longer as efficient as they used to be,” said a woman in the ward.
A nurse who was in the ward tried to intimidate the girl, saying she lied that she was not being attended to and that the doctors had left a pair of scissors in her womb as she narrated her ordeal.
Contacted for comment, the hospital’s chief executive officer Dr Lawrence Mantiziba said they were looking into the issue.
“The clinical director and public relations officer are not around and I have just sent the deputy matron to investigate the matter. They said the girl developed an abscess after the first operation and as we speak she is being attended to and being treated,” he said.
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