长在身体里23年的手术钳

一名妇女的腹部被外科钳夹了23年

A 62-year-old Russian woman recently learned that the acute pain she had lived with for over two decades was being caused by a surgical clamp forgotten inside her body after a cesarean.

一名62岁的俄罗斯妇女最近得知，她忍受了20多年的剧烈疼痛是由剖宫产后忘记在体内的手术钳引起的。

Ezeta Gobeeva, a pensioner from Russia’s North Ossetia region, had been complaining of an acute abdominal pain ever since she underwent a C-section operation in 1996, but doctors always blamed it on liver problems and did nothing but prescribe painkillers. The woman claims that she was only recently granted an X-Ray, after repeatedly complaining that the medication only helped numb the pain. The investigation revealed that the pain was caused by a surgical clamp lodged in her abdomen, which Gobeeva assumed must have been forgotten in her body by doctors who performed a cesarean operation 23 years ago.

自1996年接受剖腹产手术以来，俄罗斯北奥塞梯地区的退休老人埃兹塔戈贝耶娃(Ezeta Gobeeva)一直在抱怨急性腹痛，但医生总是将其归咎于肝脏问题，除了开止痛药什么也没做。这名女子说，她最近才接受了x光检查，此前她反复抱怨说，这种药物只会让疼痛变得麻木。调查显示，这种疼痛是由卡在她腹部的手术钳引起的，戈贝娃猜想，23年前做剖腹产手术的医生一定是忘记了这一点。

Ezeta Gobeeva told Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda that when the stunned radiologist first saw the clamp on the X-Ray, he assumed that the woman had accidentally brought the metal object into the X-Ray room.

埃兹塔接受俄罗斯报纸采访时说，当放射科医生第一次看到x光片上的夹子时惊呆了，他以为这名女子不小心把这个金属物体带进了x光室。

“She said ‘It shows scissors, you have scissors inside you’,” Ezeta recalled. ‘”What scissors?’, I asked, and she showed me the X-ray image. I was shocked, I remember nothing after that. I was crying, I was in hysterics. For so many years I was tortured.”

埃兹塔回忆说：“她说‘这是剪刀，里面有剪刀。’”“什么剪刀?我问，她给我看了X光照片。我很震惊，之后什么都不记得了。我哭了，歇斯底里。这么多年来，我一直饱受折磨。”

The surgical clamp, which resembles a pair of scissors, but is actually used by doctors to hold tissues and surgical swabs, is still in Ezeta’s body, but she has already been scheduled for an operation to have it removed.

手术夹，类似于一把剪刀，但实际上是医生用来保存组织和手术棉签的，术后它却留在了埃兹塔的身体里，目前她已经安排了手术将其取出。

The shocking case of medical malpractice has caused outrage in Russia, and prompted the North Ossetia health ministry to launch an investigation. A spokeswoman for the ministry has assured the public that the minister himself is supervising the investigation, and added that authorities will pay for the operation to remove the clamp and offer Gobeeva financial compensation for her years on unnecessary suffering.

这起令人震惊的医疗事故在俄罗斯引起愤怒，促使北奥塞梯卫生部展开调查。卫生部发言人向公众保证，部长本人正在监督调查，并补充表示，当局将承担拆除手术钳的相关费用，并为戈贝娃多年来遭受的痛苦提供经济补偿。