Raipur, October 24, 2011
A delegation of Congress members led by PCC president Nandkumar Patel and CLP leader Ravindra Choubey on Monday met Governor Shekhar Dutt and expressed its concern over apathetic attitude of the government towards the victims of Balod eye camp incident. The Congress sought from the Governor to sack Health Minister Amar Agrawal and take stern action against guilty doctors. The delegation also submitted a memorandum to the Governor with their three-point demand regarding the incident.
“According to medical norms, the doctors should have done not more than 75 cataract operations in one day, but 334 operations (1st day – 82, 2nd day – 130 & 3rd day – 122) were done in three days in Balod eye camp. This indicates that the Health department organises eye camp not with the aim to benefit the patients, but to accomplish the given targets,” the delegation said.
The delegation further said that the doctors even conducted operation of those patients whose sugar level was not normal. “The test reports of these patients in the camp said that their sugar level was normal, but it was not as was confirmed by tests conducted on same people at Ambedkar hospital,” the delegation said.
The Congress leaders then alleged that the Health Minister was saving the guilty doctors. “First, the government announced suspension of four doctors when the Congress sent a probe team to Balod in wake of the incident. Then the minister held the suspension orders of the two doctors. This proves his insensitivity. The government should sack him immediately,” they said. They also demanded adequate compensation package for the victims.
The three-point demand mentioned by the Congress in the memorandum include – at least Rs five lakh compensation to the victims and their further treatment either in Shankar Netralaya Chennai or All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi and government service to at least one family member of each victim and case against the guilty doctors and other staff under section 304 of IPC.
The Congress delegation was comprised of Satyanarayan Sharma, Tamradhwaj Sahu, Ambika Markam, Subhash Sharma, Rajkamal Singhania, Gurmukh Singh Hora, Kuldeep Juneja, Arun Vora, Ramesh Varlyani, Vidhan Mishra, Rajendra Tiwari, Kiranmayi Nayak, Shailesh Nitin Trivedi, Mahendra Chhabra, etc.
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