Thirty-nine-year-old Stella Dube, the complainant in the case, alleges that a Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital (NRH) medical doctor left a gauze inside her genitals after the surgery.Dube said that she suffered, not only physical but also emotional and psychological pain following the operation to remove a cyst from her genitals on May 11, 2012. During the continuation of the trial yesterday, Dr Kitenga Sebastien said that he indeed attended Dube on the May 11 operation.
Sebastien said that he removed an abscess (a pus filled cavity) and not a cyst (a membranous sack that contains fluid that grows abnormally in human beings) from the plaintiff. He said that he did so to help his colleague who told him that he (colleague) was not sure about how to perform the surgery. “I then stitched the wound to allow the pus to come out and told the nurse to give the patient some medication to ease the pain she was feeling,” said Sebastien, adding that he instructed the patient to use a sitz bath four times every day to clean the wound.
