Pay Tk 1.0m to each of 17 victims for botched eye treatment: HC

The High Court (HC) ordered to pay Tk 1.0 million to each of 17 people, who lost their eyesight in Chuadanga following wrong treatment in March, 2018, report agencies.

An HC bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and Justice KM Kamrul Kader passed the order disposing of a rule issued in this regard.

"The court asked Impact Masudul Haque Memorial Hospital to give Tk 0.5 million to each of 17 victims. The company, who had supplied the unregistered substandard medicine, has also been ordered to pay Tk 0.5 million to each of them.

The court also ordered the Impact authorities to arrange lifelong treatment for the victims," Advocate Amit Das Gupta, who moved a writ in this regard, told newsmen.

Advocate Gupta filed the writ with the HC after different national dailies made report on the sad incident occurred on March 5, 2018.

The victims went for treatment in the eye camp organised at Chuadanga hospital. Twenty victims lost complete or partial eyesight as the hospital authority put the medicine on their eyes.