Botched operations leave 12 partially blind?
Nellore, October 26: As many as 12 patients who underwent cataract operations partially lost their vision, allegedly due to the negligence of the doctors at the Bollineni Hospitals here.
According to sources, 15 of the 30 patients operated on in the hospital on October 20, developed infection.
Following protests from the kin of the affected, the hospital management sent 12 of them to Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, and two to a private hospital in Vijayawada, while a woman, I Nagabhushanamma, was admitted, at her request, to the District Hospital here.