Almost 800 patients have had surgical instruments left INSIDE them after hospital procedures causing 16 deaths since 2005, says new health care report 772 incidents of foreign objects left in patients between 2005 and 2012 Equipment like sponges, towels, needles, instruments, retractors and other small items and fragments of tools have been found in patients The report from The Joint Commission, a non-profit health care safety watchdog, shows it is due to human error and lack of protocols The watchdog calling for a stricter, more standardised counting system involving all members of the hospital team

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