Read the full judgment text of CACV 000061/1982 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 29 July 1982.
1. This is an appeal against the quantum of damages awarded to the respondent for negligence. On the 26th July 1978 the respondent, a married woman then aged 23, was delivered in a Government hospital by Caesarean section of a baby girl. At the time of the delivery, her fallopian tubes were tied at her request. Due to the admitted negligence of those represented by the appellant a surgical swab was inadvertently left in the utero-cervical region at the time of this operation.