A recent news states that AIIMS has been directed to pay Rs one lakh by a consumer forum to the parents of a girl child for alleged negligence in carrying out transplantation of cornea in her eye. According to the complaint, the girl was taken to AIIMS for treatment in October 1998 and three corneal graftings were done in her injured eye on different dates between 1998 and 2001. It is said that post that treatment the girl lost sight in her left eye and, thereafter, she was advised for fourth corneal grafting in June 2005 at AIIMS, it added.
The complaint added that three corneal graftings were performed in girl’s left eye by the Junior/trainee/new doctors without there being any senior doctor and the junior/trainees/ new doctors did the treatment for their practical/learning purposes. It was also alleged that few broken sutures (stitches) were found in the left eye of the girl which…
