23 year old mother demands 100 million complaining that doctor of the Central has left cotton inside at Cesarean operation!
A 23 year old mother has filed action with Colombo District Court claiming Rs. 10 crores from Dr. Warnakulasooriya as compensation for having left behind a ball of cotton with neglect inside her abdomen at her Cesarean childbirth carried out at Colombo Central Private Hospital which belongs to Asiri
Hospital network after which she complains of having suffered various problems.Gynaecologist Dr. C. Warnakulasooriya at the Central Private Hospital has been named as the respondent in this instance. The petitioner has further mentioned there that if this wad of cotton was not removed, she had run the risk of even sacrificing her life. It was 23 year old M.C.T.D. Perera of Dalugama, Kelaniya who has filed legal action with Colombo District Court yesterday (14) and she had faced this mishap at her second childbirth. The victim says that she was admitted to hospital on instructions of the defendant specialist doctor on 31st January 2016 and that this Cesarean operation was performed on the same day and the baby was born. She had in fact notified the doctor concerned about a severe pain she suffered in her abdomen for several days after the operation including complications; however, she said that she was not subjected to a proper check-up and instead she had been prescribed only sedatives.
Subsequently at a scan examination carried out by a consultant doctor a wad of cotton or a wad of gauze was detected inside her abdomen and she was amazed by this revelation, she had stated in her complaint. She mentioned that having admitted herself to another private hospital on 01.04.2016 it had been possible to to remove the growth that had developed around that wad of cotton or ball of gauze, after detaching a part of the bowel. She added that until such time her wounds were healed her bowels were left to remain outside her abdomen and she was compelled to attend to her usual procedures of physical activities through artificial procedures for close upon 45 days. She says that a second operation was performed on her for the purpose of inserting internal matter of the bowels on 15th May 2016 and she points out that as a consequence of this negligent act of the defendant doctor her life was suspended in a risky and fatal situation.
The plaintiff in this instance has demanded compensation from the doctor concerned and the hospital combined or separately because of having faced with predicaments such as not being able to breast-feed the newly-born baby for a period of 5 months as a result and that she had to totally forego breast-feeding because of the medication she had been prescribed to follow and that she has had to spend an enormous sum of money for medical examinations and surgeries. She has finally added that she should be compensated with Rs. 100,000 million by the specialist gynaecologist of the private hospital for having subjected her life to a risk and in the process for having made to suffer various forms of serious physical conditions as well as mental pressure for a period of 5 months and being thus forced to spend a massive sum of money.