Hyderabad: Thirteen patients who underwent cataract operations in Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital recently developed severe infections. Five of them will lose their eyesight, say sources.
“The patients have been undergoing treatment since the last three days. But the doctors are not willing to talk as people will raise a hue and cry, hence they are pacifying the relatives,” a relative of one of the patients who had registered a complaint with the director of health and medical education said on condition of anonymity.
However, the relatives realised that the infection was severe and demanded explanations from the doctors. Mr Mahesh R. a relative of Mr Nukulla Talli, said, “The doctors are not even apologetic. They say so many people die in road mishaps. This was just an infection.”
Ms Laxmi, whose father Mr Satyanarayana is undergoing treatment, added, “They didn’t tell us that it was an infection.”
But Dr Gupta said, “When we opened the bandage the next day we found the infection. We found that the saline bottles were contaminated with Klebsiella bacteria.”
But senior ophthalmologist Dr Manoj Chandra Mathur said, “Klebsilla bacteria grows within the eye but is transferred from a non-sterilised instrument to the eye.”
