In a shocking Incident on a UP hospital, a patient got his eye operated under the dim light of a torch.The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district was transferred by the government after this incident surfaced.
Along with CMO Rajendra Prasad, Community Health Centre (CHC) in-charge Devesh Das has also been suspended for dereliction of duty.
Over 50 eye operations were conducted at the Nawabganj CHC by a non-government organization on Monday and photographs that appeared in some sections of media showed the surgeries being conducted on the floor of the hospital and under the light of a torch.
On Tuesday, a probe was ordered by the state government and was conducted by Joint Director (Health) Avdhesh Yadav and Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Manish Bansal.
The probe teams investigation revealed many lapses, including the unhygienic circumstances on which the hospital worked. Many patients on whom the procedures were conducted testified about the lapses.
Permission for conducting the eye operations had also not been procured from the authorities.
On Tuesday, when the electricity went off, the CHC in-charge refused permission to switch on the generator and directed that the surgeries be conducted in the dark, with the aid of a torch
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