Bihar doctors are again in the news for wrong reasons. This time, a doctor has left scissor in a woman’s womb.
The apparatus was reportedly used by a leading gynaecologist at the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) when the doctor performed a caesarean operation on Sushma Devi five years ago.
After her delivery at PMCH, the scissor was inadvertently left in Sushma’s womb.
Though she had complained of acute pain earlier, the doctors only prescribed a pain killer.
But after five years, when the pain became unbearable, Sushma had to undergo an X-ray following which it was diagnosed that a scissor was present in her womb.
On Monday, she was brought to a private nursing home in Patna, where Dr D N Choupal conducted the operation and took out the scissor.
Reacting to this incident, an embarrassed Health Minister Chandra Mohan Rai said, “The doctor will be identified and even if he or she has retired, stringent action would be taken as per the law.”
Another case of negligence had come to light when Dr Chandeshwar Choudhary of Darbhanga was accused of leaving a towel in the womb of a woman after a caesarean operation. In that case, a 30-year-old Phool Devi had delivered a baby at the  nursing home of Dr Choudhary in Darbhanga on July 8. However, a few days after the operation, Phool complained of severe pain. On July 22, her relatives took her to the nursing home of Dr Choudhary, who charged her around Rs 20,000 for injecting 22 bottles of saline water and transfusing two bottles of blood.
When the pain still persisted, Phool Devi’s kin on July 24 took her to another medical practitioner Dr Rajiv Nayan, where she was operated upon. To everyone’s horror, Dr Nayan found a towel left in her womb, which he took it out after an hour-long operation.