Recently, the city of Indore in Central India witnessed a very tragic and unfortunate incident where 14 people lost their vision after routine cataract surgery. Indore Eye Hospital had been in operation for over 2 decades; the chief physician had performed tens of thousands of successful surgeries. Then this deeply tragic and unacceptable event took place where so many people were harmed, many irreversibly, due to a medical error. Based on the investigations so far, it seems that the vision loss in these patients was caused by Pseudomonas infection; the source of which is not clear.
The contamination came possibly from the operation room. Criminal charges have been levied against this senior doctor and the hospital has been closed. Unfortunately, such incidents are all too common and there are almost daily reports of such events taking place in across the country. Of course, only the…
