Pay Tk 10 lakh each to botched eye treatment victims: HC

The High Court (HC) on Sunday ordered to pay Taka 10 lakh each to 17 people, who lost eyesight in Chuadanga as their eye treatment went wrong in March, 2018, reports BSS.

A High Court division bench comprising Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and Justice KM Kamrul Kader passed the order, disposing of a rule issued in this regard.

“The court asked Impact Masudul Haque Memorial Hospital to give Taka five lakh each to 17 victims. The company, who had supplied the unregistered substandard medicine, has also been ordered to pay Taka five lakh each to the victims.

The court also ordered the Impact authorities to arrange lifelong treatment for the victims,” Advocate Amit Das Gupta, who moved a writ in this regard, told newsmen.

The court also formed a seven-member committee headed by additional secretary of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to monitor such cases of medical negligence in future.

Advocate Gupta filed the writ with the High Court after different national dailies made report on the sad incident occurred on March 5, 2018.

The victims went for treatment in the eye camp organized at Chuadanga hospital. Twenty victims lost complete or partial eyesight as the hospital authority put the medicine on their eyes.