Around a month after 11 elderly persons lost vision due to botched cataract surgeries in Indore, four persons, who recently underwent similar surgeries at Chhindwara district hospital too have lost their eyesight.
Chhindwara is the assembly constituency of Chief Minister Kamal Nath. It is also the parliamentary constituency of Nath’s son Nakul. After the incident came to fore, Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Thursday ordered an inquiry after four persons claimed to have lost eyesight following cataract removal surgeries at the district hospital in his constituency Chhindwara.
Nath on ordered an inquiry after four persons claimed to have lost eyesight following cataract removal surgeries at the district hospital in his constituency Chhindwara.
“Inquiry has been ordered regarding patients losing eyesight after cataract operations in Chhindwara. Strict action will be taken against those found guilty,” the Chief Minister tweeted. The Government will bear the cost of treatment of the four patients, he added. Sources said the cataract surgeries of the four patients, including an elderly woman was performed at Chhindwara District Hospital on September 25. All four patients later claimed to have lost vision, but only two of them approached the doctors after it. However, when asked by doctors to get admitted at the hospital, they returned home. Chhindwara district in-charge Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Dr S Sethi said that he came to know aobut the incident only on Wednesday. Three of the patients are being sent to Bhopal, while the fourth one is being treated by doctors in Chhindwara only. The fourth patient is responding well to medical treatment in Chhindwara, but if needed the patient will also be sent to Bhopal, he added.
However, the reasons behind the alleged loss of vision among the four patients can only be ascertained when they are thoroughly examined in Bhopal.