At least 60 persons have lost their eyesight after an operation at an eye camp organised by an NGO in Gurdaspur district, civil and medical authorities said on Thursday. While 16 persons belonged to villages of Amritsar the rest were from Gurdaspur district. All of them were admitted in city ENT hospitals of Amritsar and Gursdaspur. Confirming the incident, deputy commissioner Amritsar, Ravi Bhagat, said here on Thursday that the 16 affected patients admitted to the city ENT hospital are under the supervision of assistant professor Karamjit Singh.
Singh said that all of them have permanently lost their vision. Bhagat said that a high-level inquiry has been ordered to find the doctors who performed the operations at the camp. Giving details, civil surgeon Amritsar, Rajiv Bhalla, said all the patients were operated at an eye camp in Ghuman village of Gurdaspur district around ten days…
