MEERUT: Mass cataract surgery at the Seth Baldev Das Bajoria District Hospital in Saharanpur on December 3, it seems wrong with at least 27 people who contracted severe infections after surgery lost all vision three weeks after the procedure.
Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Saharanpur, Sanjeev Mangalik told Tii on Wednesday that he had ordered a detailed investigation into this issue, which involved a senior surgeon of the eyes at a government hospital.
The patient’s family accused the hospital using poor quality lenses.
Five among 27 patients were shifted to the Institute of Education and Medical Research on Postgraduate, Chandigarh (PGI), and were being treated there.
Nipun Bhardwah, a social activist, said he helped transport around 20 people suffering from infection after surgery to various hospitals including PGI Chandigarh and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
“Almost everyone who operated that day lost their vision,” Bhardwaj said.
The doctor in PGI, who treated five patients today, said that all who arrived suffered post-cataract surgery infections.
The doctor told Ti that the prime facie looked like something wrong during the operation itself.
“We have received five patients with post-cataract surgical complications from Saharanpur.
We have operated on three of them and two will be operated tomorrow,” said a senior doctor’s senior doctor at PGI Chandigarh.
“We will have a case investigated by a team of doctors.
We have involved private doctors, the carrier of the Indian medical association office and government doctors to ensure fair probes,” CMO Mangalik said.
Dr.
Lal, who performs operations, does not respond to several calls and text made by TOI.