Hospital prohibited from conducting cataract surgeries

Rajnandgaon district collector has prohibited a private hospital in the city from conducting cataract surgeries for six months.

Twenty-seven people lost vision in one eye after undergoing cataract removal procedure at Christian Fellowship Hospital here last month, a senior district official said today.

Collector Bhim Singh prohibited the hospital from conducting cataract operations for six months for violating the standard protocol during the surgeries, Rajnandgaon Chief Medical and Health Officer Dr Mithlesh Chaudhary said.

A total of 45 people were operated for cataract at Christian Fellowship Hospital on February 23 and discharged.

Of them, 32 complained of pain and infection in the operated eye, so they were again admitted at the hospital.

When the district administration learnt about the development, a team of doctors from Raipur visited the hospital and all patients were shifted to MGM Hospital in the capital, Chaudhary said.

Twenty-seven of these patients were found to have lost vision in one eye, he said.

A committee which probed the incident found that the hospital ignored the standard protocol while conducting the operations, he said.

Samples of medicines used during the operations have been sent for examination to Kolkata, the officer said, adding that further inquriy was underway.