11 claim blindness of one-eye post cataract operation, Health Minister sends team for inquiry

Gandhinagar/Rajkot

Health Minister Nitin Patel today said that he has sent a team to Rajkot to enquire about the incident of alleged faulty cataract operations in a local trust run hospital owing to which 11 people have reportedly lost sight of their one eye.

He also said that the operation theater has been sealed.

Mr. Patel said that primary investigation has shown that it was a case of eye infection post operation. ‘If the need be the affected ones will be brought to Ahmedabad for better treatment,’ he said adding that as per his information only two people had more serious infection.

A private hospital run by a trust of Sindhi community in Gaikvadi area of Rajkot had operated a total of 25 people on December 21. When they came up for post operation check up on December 23, eleven of them complained of sight loss and other problems in their operated eye.

The minister said that the small hospital used to conduct 300 to 400 such operations every year but no complains were reported earlier. The whole matter was being looked in to.

‘The operation theater of the hospital has been sealed for thorough investigation,’ Mr. Patel said.

– DeshGujarat