Police officers mentioned CCTV footage is being examined.
Because the household of a person who died of a bullet damage whereas present process remedy in a Patna hospital was grieving, one other shock awaited them – his left eye went lacking hours after his loss of life. Whereas the household has alleged that the attention was taken out by medical doctors as a part of a “enterprise”, the hospital administration has pinned the blame on rats.
The person, Fantus Kumar, was admitted to Patna’s second-largest hospital, Nalanda Medical School and Hospital (NMCH), on Thursday after being shot in his stomach in Nalanda. Kumar was admitted to the ICU however was declared useless at 8:55 pm on Friday. The household was with him within the hospital until 1 am on Saturday and after they returned a number of hours later, they discovered his left eye lacking.
The person’s brother-in-law claimed that somebody from the hospital had eliminated the attention. “How can they be so negligent? Both somebody from the hospital conspired with the individuals who shot him or the hospital is concerned in some enterprise of taking individuals’s eyes out,” he mentioned.
“If we won’t belief such a giant facility, who can we belief? Somebody took his eye out within the ICU and the hospital is saying it does not know what has occurred. That is very unlucky,” he added.
Police officers mentioned CCTV footage is being examined.
“The person’s household has alleged that his eye has been taken out. It’s clear the physique has been tampered with. The medical doctors have mentioned rats may have bitten off the attention, and we’re investigating,” mentioned an official.
NMCH Medical Superintendent Dr Vinod Kumar Singh mentioned rats could possibly be accountable and {that a} thorough investigation is being carried out.
“Fantus Kumar was admitted to the ICU after struggling a firearm damage. He was operated upon and the bullet was eliminated, however he died at 8:55 pm on Friday. His household was with him until 1 am and so they knowledgeable us at 5 am that his left eye was lacking. We try to look into what has occurred. An FIR has been filed,” he mentioned.
“The opportunity of rats biting off the attention can’t be ignored. We must await a autopsy. This isn’t acceptable, and anybody discovered responsible of negligence will likely be punished,” he added.
Mr Singh additionally argued that eradicating a watch, which might solely be used for a corneal transplant, will not make a lot sense in Kumar’s case as a result of he was useless for no less than 4 hours earlier than it went lacking.
“The affected person died at 8.55 pm and the incident occurred after 1.00 am. The attention, even when somebody took it out, will not be of a lot use. A watch can solely be used whether it is surgically eliminated inside 4 to 6 hours of the loss of life,” he mentioned.
