At least 60 persons lost their eyesight after an operation at an eye camp in Gurdaspur district of Punjab in India.
Of the victims, 16 people belonged to villages of Amritsar the rest were from Gurdaspur district. All of them were admitted in city ENT hospitals of Amritsar and Gursdaspur, reported India Today.
Amritsar Deputy Commissioner Ravi Bhagat said 16 affected patients admitted to the city ENT Hospital are under the supervision of Assistant Professor Karamjit Singh.
“All of them have permanently lost their vision. A high-level inquiry has been ordered to find the doctors who performed the operations at the camp.”
Giving details, Civil Surgeon Amritsar, Rajiv Bhalla, said all the patients were operated at an eye camp in Ghuman village of Gurdaspur district around ten days ago.
“The cataract surgery in the eye camp was performed under severe unhygienic condition whereupon eyes of all the 60 patients were found damaged permanently.”
He said before organising the eye camp, mandatory permission was required from the district Administration and Civil Surgeons of Gurdaspur and Amritsar but the norms were not followed.