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Beed C-section patient critical after alleged retained material
India Today··20 Aug
A 19-year-old woman was in critical care at Pune's Sassoon General Hospital after her family alleged surgical gloves and napkins were left in her abdomen following a caesarean at Beed District Hospital. Sandhya Suraj Gaikwad had the C-section on 1 August 2026 and was discharged four days later. She later developed severe abdominal pain. District officials issued show-cause notices.
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What It Means For You
- If you deliver at a Maharashtra district hospital, this family says a C-section on 1 August was followed by severe pain and a later finding of retained surgical material.
- Anyone seeking a second opinion after discharge can note the family first went to a private hospital, which reported an unknown object, before the Pune transfer.
- If you work on a theatre team, Beed officials have issued show-cause notices to the doctor and staff from the first operation while the probe continues.
What's Happening
- Sandhya Suraj Gaikwad is being treated in the ICU at Sassoon General Hospital in Pune.
- The Beed district administration has taken cognisance and said show-cause notices were issued to the woman doctor and other health workers.
- The family has asked the chief minister and deputy chief ministers for an inquiry, according to Suraj Gaikwad.
What Officials Have And Have Not Yet Established
- ETV Bharat quoted the district civil surgeon as saying a foreign body was left in the abdomen and that a report was being prepared for higher authorities.
- Free Press Journal reported the family said an FIR was registered in Beed but that further action had not followed at the time of that report.
- News reports differ on whether the retained items were described as gloves and napkins or a glove and bandage, a point the medical inquiry will have to settle.
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