By Meera Suresh
International Business Times
In an extreme case of medical negligence, a woman in India died Tuesday after doctors accidentally left a piece of cotton inside her body during a cesarean section performed 18 months ago.
Chintala Mamatha, 20, from the southern state of Telangana, died following a year-long battle with infection caused by the material that remained undetected inside her abdomen. She had delivered her second child, a stillborn, days before she died, media outlet News 18 reported.
Mamatha delivered a healthy baby girl via cesarean section at a hospital in the town of Bhongir last year. However, the doctors who attended to her accidentally left a cotton swab inside her body. Since then, Mamatha had been complaining of stomach pain. Though she consulted many doctors, none of them diagnosed the cause of her agony…More Here:.www.ibtimes.com
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