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Ryan Fahey

Forceps left in patient's stomach for five YEARS after caesarean surgery

A woman was left in excruciating agony because a pair of forceps used during her caesarean were left inside her body for five years.

Mum Harshinia, 30, has filed a complaint against doctors in Kerala, India after the medical implements were left behind when she delivered her baby in 2017.

On September 17, Harshinia was forced to undergo major surgery to have the steel "mosquito artery forceps" removed from her body at the Kozhikode Medical College.

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