The hospital staffers had failed to even inform her of their blunder in the first few days
Six months after the Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital eye fiasco where 20 patients were injected with contaminated injections; Farhat Nabi, 25-year-old woman from Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh, who is one of the victims, is still looking for treatment which was promised to her and is visiting the hospital every month in this regard.
While the other patients received further treatment at AIIMS and recovered, the hospital staffers had failed to even inform her of their blunder in the first few days.
"I still go to Delhi almost every month for check-ups but neither has there been any improvement in my eye, I still see the black spots, nor I have been referred elsewhere. On this recent visit, after I had an argument with the staff, they signed a referral and hand it over to me but still refused to give me the necessary documents. This was their fault and now they have left me to be on my own with a referral paper," says Nabi.
On April 1, Nabi was given Avastin injection at the GTB Hospital. The medicine is used to prevent blindness due to aging, diabetes, hypertension, and rupturing of blood vessels. Soon after being administered the injection, she fell unconscious and was later sent home and asked to visit for a follow-up.
Even though she kept complaining of excruciating pain and a dark spot in her eye, she was sent back after a routine check-up and asked to visit on April 7.
At the same time, other patients who were administered this contaminated injection were called back the next day and referred to AIIMS, where surgeries were conducted in eight critical cases. The hospital authorities, however, did not make any such calls to the Nabi family.
"Her vision is still the same, she can still read as much as she could before the blunder. Hers is a progressive disease and will have to come for follow-ups all through her life. We are analysing the issue regarding her eye and referred her to AIIMS because she wanted to go there," says Dr. Sunil Kumar, Medical Director, GTB Hospital.
Another patient had alleged that even though surgeries were conducted at AIIMS soon after, the hospital had refused to return the last OPD papers, which had the doctor's prescription of the medicine.
The fiasco had also led to the death of a 70-year-old woman, Gyanwati, who had to stop taking her medicines after she was put on different ones when she developed blurred vision. She later suffered a cardiac arrest.
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