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A woman who became increasingly ill in the weeks after her baby was born was prescribed pain relief and antibiotics for what healthcare professionals thought were standard post-delivery complications.
It was not until the woman saw her GP for a scheduled appointment six weeks later that a pad the size of "half an arm" was found left inside the woman, a report said.
The obstetrics registrar who had helped with the delivery was repairing an incision she had given the woman and was distracted by an emergency bell from another patient.
She inserted swabs in the woman she was treating and attended the othe
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