HC orders probe by ACP in cataract surgeries which went wrong
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court directed the government to transfer to an ACP-rank officer the probe in a case, where four persons lost their eyesight after undergoing cataract surgeries at a civic hospital last year.
Justice J B Pardiwala ordered the state government to hand over the case to the ACP-level officer, and said it would be overseen by a Deputy Commissioner of Police.
The court asked for the probe report in a month and said the charge sheet shall not be filed without its consent. It also asked the police to take into consideration a report filed by Food and Drugs Laboratory (FDL) at Vadodara which said the antiseptic drug manufactured by Gujarat Pharma (used in the surgeries) was of standard quality and no bacteria was found in it.
The role of LG Hospitals staff should also be examined, the court said, while hearing applications filed by Gujarat Pharma and the distributor firm Dynamic Marketing House, seeking quashing of FIR in the case.
The FIR cited findings of LG Hospital, NHL Medical College and BJ Medical College all run by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation -- that the liquid antiseptic used in operations was infected with harmful bacteria.
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