MANILA, Philippines--A 26-year-old computer design operator aide sought from the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) the suspension and cancellation of the licenses to practice of two doctors of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) who allegedly left a surgical gauze inside her body when she gave birth last year.

Janet Dizon, of Signal Village, Taguig City, filed a complaint in the PRC Legal Division against doctors Maricel Reyes and Gody Magnolia Albito, of the PGH Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology for ?grave, serious misconduct and unprofessional, negligent actuations in the discharge of their official duties as doctors of medicine.?

The gauze, she claimed, was only discovered when she felt pain in her vagina. She added that she became feverish after she was discharged from the hospital on July 5, 2009.

Dizon claimed that when she examined herself because of ?continuous and recurrent pains? in her vagina, she noticed something lodged inside her body. Later, at Jose Reyes Memorial Medical Center, a doctor removed a ?rotting and smelly? gauze inside her birth canal, she said.

In response to the complaint, Reyes submitted an affidavit to the Philippine Medical Association claiming that before Dizon was transferred to PGH, she was subjected to an internal examination that showed no signs of the gauze.

Albito?s affidavit supported Reyes? statement, adding: ?We routinely do discharge internal examination on patients who delivered ? during the time of examination, I observed the episiotomy site was intact, the uterus was well contracted; no active vaginal bleeding, no surgical gauze was found in the vagina.?