Usually when you stitch a wound up you usually say the stitches should stay in for 7-10days so 5days doesn't sound very long to me and it is at risk of reopening at that stage even if it looks like its closed because the tissue below the surface is still binding together especially as the cut you've made sounds deep.
The reason they debrided it was because it was left for a while so they were removing all of the debris and cutting back the dead tissue to get to an undamaged area with a healthy vascular bed (blood supply) that would properly heal together.
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