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Ma Van Nhat, 54,
said the forceps had probably been left in his abdomen in 1998
when he had emergency surgery after a traffic accident.
Nhat had felt only the occasional pain and a clinic had given
him medicine for a suspected stomach ulcer. An X-ray taken late
last year showed the forceps were to blame.
The 15 cm (six inch) long instrument had broken apart and become
lodged in Nhat's stomach. They were removed in an operation.
The director of Bac Kan Hospital, Trinh Thi Luong, told VTV that
officials were trying to find out who might have left the
forceps in Nhat.
"Even if they are already retired we will still inform them,"
she said. "This is a lesson to all doctors".
Medical errors are not uncommon in Vietnam. Over the past year
there have been two cases of doctors operating on wrong limbs,
and three cases of men being diagnosed as pregnant.
(Reporting by My Pham; Editing by Darren Schuettler)
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