<p>Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today ordered a high level probe into an NGO sponsored medical camp in Gurdaspur district in which 60 people lost their eyesight.<br /><br />Badal has asked Principal Secretary Health Vinnie Mahajan to personally conduct an inquiry into all the aspects of this unfortunate incident, an official spokesman said here.<br /><br />He has also directed Mahajan to rush to the site for an on spot assessment of the tragedy and for supervising and expediting relief to the victims and their families.<br />The Chief Minister has also announced an interim relief of Rs 1 lakh to each of the affected families, whose members have lost eyesight in the tragedy.<br /><br />Announcing free medical treatment for all the victims of the tragedy, Badal has directed that all the patients should be re-examined for fresh treatment at the government level.<br /><br />Reports from Amritsar had said yesterday that at least 60 persons lost their eyesight after an operation at an eye camp organised by an NGO in Gurdaspur district.</p>.<p>While 16 persons belonged to villages of Amritsar the rest were from Gurdaspur district. All of them were admitted in city ENT hospitals of Amritsar and Gursdaspur.<br />Civil Surgeon Amritsar, Rajiv Bhalla, had said all the patients were operated at an eye camp in Ghuman village of Gurdaspur district around ten days ago.<br /><br />The incident emerged when all the 16 patients, who belonged to Amritsar, approached Deputy Commissioner Bhagat to lodge a complaint against the NGO and doctors concerned.<br /><br />The cataract surgery in the eye camp was performed under "severe unhygienic condition" whereupon eyes of all the 60 patients were found damaged permanently, Bhalla had said.<br /><br />Before organising the eye camp, mandatory permission was required from the district Administration and Civil Surgeons of Gurdaspur and Amritsar but all the norms were not followed, he had said.<br /><br />All the affected patients were above the age of 60 with poor economical condition. <br /></p>
<p>Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today ordered a high level probe into an NGO sponsored medical camp in Gurdaspur district in which 60 people lost their eyesight.<br /><br />Badal has asked Principal Secretary Health Vinnie Mahajan to personally conduct an inquiry into all the aspects of this unfortunate incident, an official spokesman said here.<br /><br />He has also directed Mahajan to rush to the site for an on spot assessment of the tragedy and for supervising and expediting relief to the victims and their families.<br />The Chief Minister has also announced an interim relief of Rs 1 lakh to each of the affected families, whose members have lost eyesight in the tragedy.<br /><br />Announcing free medical treatment for all the victims of the tragedy, Badal has directed that all the patients should be re-examined for fresh treatment at the government level.<br /><br />Reports from Amritsar had said yesterday that at least 60 persons lost their eyesight after an operation at an eye camp organised by an NGO in Gurdaspur district.</p>.<p>While 16 persons belonged to villages of Amritsar the rest were from Gurdaspur district. All of them were admitted in city ENT hospitals of Amritsar and Gursdaspur.<br />Civil Surgeon Amritsar, Rajiv Bhalla, had said all the patients were operated at an eye camp in Ghuman village of Gurdaspur district around ten days ago.<br /><br />The incident emerged when all the 16 patients, who belonged to Amritsar, approached Deputy Commissioner Bhagat to lodge a complaint against the NGO and doctors concerned.<br /><br />The cataract surgery in the eye camp was performed under "severe unhygienic condition" whereupon eyes of all the 60 patients were found damaged permanently, Bhalla had said.<br /><br />Before organising the eye camp, mandatory permission was required from the district Administration and Civil Surgeons of Gurdaspur and Amritsar but all the norms were not followed, he had said.<br /><br />All the affected patients were above the age of 60 with poor economical condition. <br /></p>