A team of urologists from the Menoufia University Hospitals, led by Dr. Mohamed Kamal Omar, an assistant professor in the department, managed to extract a surgical drape from a patient’s abdomen that had been overlooked 7 years ago during a previous surgery..
Dr. Mohamed Kamal, head of the surgical team, indicated that the patient, 60 years old, arrived at Menoufia University Hospitals suffering from frequent rise in temperature and inability to eat. The right kidney was removed from it 7 years ago, and a team from the Department of Urology, under the supervision of the head of the department, Dr. Sultan Muhammad Sultan, made an appointment for an urgent surgery to extract the foreign body, and it turned out to be a towel surgery neglected from previous operation.
For his part, Dr. Mahmoud Qora, Dean of the Faculty and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the University Hospitals, thanked the surgical team and the auxiliary medical team, noting that the Menoufia teaching hospitals have a selection of the best human cadres qualified to deal with such cases requiring high skill with advanced skills..
Dr. Muhammad Al-Sawy, Executive Director of University Hospitals, indicated that the surgical team is under the supervision of Dr. Sultan Muhammad Sultan, Head of Urology Department, and led by Muhammad Kamal Omar, Assistant Professor of Urology, with collaboration Dr. Muhammad Abu Zaid, Urology Teacher, and Dr. Islam Barsim, Assistant Teacher of Vascular Surgery and Dr. Abdullah Amer, Assistant Teacher of Urology. The anesthesia team also included Dr. Moataz Al-Taweel, Assistant professor of anesthesia, Dr. Enas Abdel Mohsen, Lecturer in Anesthesia, and Dr. Ahmed Shalabi, Resident Physician in the Department of Anesthesia with the assistance of Urological Surgery Heba Abdel Salam, Ahmed Ramadan..
The medical team after taking out the towel
The medical towel after its extraction
