Police have arrested a medical doctor in connection with the case of a woman whose life was saved by medics in January this year after they removed several surgical tools, including three gloves, a syringe and cotton, from her uterus.

The lead suspect (name withheld), who works at Byumba Hospital, is the man who performed the cesarean delivery involving Zawadi Murekatete, 20, a Congolese refugee in Gihembe camp in Gicumbi District, in 2008, according to Police.

Murekatete’s case shocked the nation when doctors at Kigali Teaching Hospital (CHUK) discovered the surgical instruments in her uterus, three years after the C-section.

"Investigations have since been ongoing and that’s why we have finally made arrests" Police Spokesman Theos Badege told The New Times today.

Also under arrest is a CHUK medical officer who sought to cover up the malpractice by trying to destroy evidence, Badege added.

The Police spokesperson also said that the investigations unearthed more similar cases in which the lead suspect is implicated.

"Some of the victims have either died or suffered permanent effects,”Badege said, adding that some victims have petitioned civil courts.

Murekatete had been transferred to CHUK from Byumba Hospital in critical condition.