YANBU — A citizen in Yanbu has complained to the authorities about two obstetricians at the city's general hospital, accusing them of leaving a gauze in his wife's womb after a Caesarian operation, Al-Madinah newspaper reported on Tuesday. The husband, Abu Shahir Aljohani, filed a complaint at the Prosecution and Investigations Bureau against the doctors. He said he took his wife to the general hospital in Yanbu for delivery but the doctors decided that she needed a Caesarian. He said: “I signed the papers for the operation, but a few days after she left the hospital my wife started feeling severe pain in her womb that prevented her from walking or breastfeeding her baby.” Aljohani said he took his wife again to the same hospital but the obstetrician who performed the operation asked him to come again after three weeks. “My wife's condition worsened so I took her to a private hospital where an X-ray showed a piece of cloth was still inside her womb.” Aljohani said he complained to the general hospital's chief doctor, who sarcastically asked him to bring in the piece of cloth to make sure that it belonged to the hospital. The husband asked health officials to hold accountable the two obstetricians for their mistake and the chief doctor for ridiculing him. A spokesman for Madinah Health Affairs Abdul Razzaq Hafiz said a committee has been formed to investigate the case.
