The doctors left the sponge on her body, paid off at $10.5 million.

The sponge was 18 inches long and left in his body during an operation. However, the woman had not known this and had kept the sponge in her body for several years.

The incident had occurred when she had undergone heart surgery in 2011, and the woman learned that she had sponges in her body after four years through an analysis.

During that time, the sponge had moved them through the body and caused them pain. For this reason the doctors had amputated one leg, and the woman also had problems with her internal organs.

Thus, a court ruled that this woman should pay $8 million for pain and suffering, $1m for punitive damages, and $1.4m for medical expenses.

However, the hospital where the surgery was conducted said it would complain to this decision, claiming that amputation of the leg was not the result of the sponge in the body and that the object was in the woman's body for a much longer time, since 1988, when she was subjected to another operation, writes “Independent”.