Bihar: Muzaffarpur Eye Hospital’s Operation Theatre, Medicine Shop Sealed After 13 Patients Lose Vision

On Wednesday, four people said that they lost vision in their eyes after at least nine people had reported losing their eyesight on Tuesday.

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New Delhi: The operation theatre and medicine shop of a local eye hospital in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur have been sealed after multiple patients recently reported that they lost their eyesight following a cataract surgery there. 

“Today as per order, operation theatre and medicine shop has been sealed,” news agency ANI quoted Manisha, Additional Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM), East Muzaffarpur, as saying.

This comes as a total of 13 people have so far lost their eyesight, as per District civil surgeon Dr Vinay Kumar Sharma, following cataract surgery at a local eye hospital in Muzaffarpur.

On Wednesday, four people said that they lost vision in their eyes after at least nine people had reported losing their eyesight on Tuesday.

The eye hospital had set up a cataract camp. Many people from nearby areas, who had arrived to attend the camp, were operated upon on November 22. 

As per ANI, at least 25 people who had undergone the cataract operations there complained of pain in their eyes and contacted the hospital. Following this, the eyes of almost half a dozen people were extracted. 

The civil surgeon constituted a special team to probe the matter. The team is expected to submit its report. 

Meanwhile, Congress MLC Prem Chandra Mishra had on Thursday moved an adjournment motion in Bihar Legislative Council on the issue of 13 people losing their eyesight.

(With Agency Inputs)