: When India’s mass eye camps leave people blind #IndiaNEWS “We want an eye for an eye,� the poster said. “We don’t want a stone eye.�Holding it up was 60-year-old Shatrugan Madhav, a tractor

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When India’s mass eye camps leave people blind #IndiaNEWS
“We want an eye for an eye,� the poster said. “We don’t want a stone eye.�Holding it up was 60-year-old Shatrugan Madhav, a tractor driver who had travelled from a village in Muzaffarpur district, Bihar, to take part in a protest on February 14 outside the Shri Krishna Medical College Hospital, the largest public hospital in the city of Muzaffarpur.There were eight other men and women in the group, all of whom had travelled from villages across Muzaffarpur, Vaishali, and East and West Champaran districts. They worked either as small farmers or daily wage labourers, and many belonged to backward caste groups.They all held up posters, supplied to them by a local political leader. But the grievance was their own. Last year, on November 22, they attended an eye surgery camp at Muzaffarpur Eye Hospital, a charitable private hospital. They wanted to get rid of cataract, a cloudy layer that settles on the lens of the eye due to the breakdown of proteins, and causes blurred vision. The surgery to treat cataract involves replacing the clouded lens with an artificial lens.But the surgeries in Muzaffarpur went terribly wrong. Of the 328 patients who were treated in the camp, between November 22 and November 27, at least...Read more

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