00:00Let me turn from there to our Get Real India story.
00:04An unacceptable tragedy in UP's Gorakhpur.
00:07More than a dozen people have fallen victim to a botched up cataract surgery.
00:12With at least nine of them losing their eyesight.
00:15Take a look at Get Real India.
00:34They went in hoping to restore their eyesight, but came back to a lifetime of darkness.
00:41This is the story of more than a dozen patients who became victims of a botched cataract surgery in Gorakhpur
00:48in Uttar Pradesh.
00:50The incident took place at New Rajesh High Tech Hospital in Sikri Ganj.
00:53On the 1st of February, an eye camp was organised with 30 patients underwent cataract surgery.
01:0018 patients developed serious eye infections.
01:03Many complained of severe pain, bleeding and pus formation.
01:28Despite treatment, nine patients eventually had to undergo surgery to remove the affected eye.
01:35Victims allege that complications began almost immediately after the cataract surgery.
01:40If you're already no one else has seen the eye.
01:48Best in your assessment was already in 2 days.
01:52Can you see the eye?
01:52Not that the eye can be flushed without any other disease.
01:54Look at the eye.
01:56That means that the eye would need to have some constant damage.
01:57Under the eye interventions are only on the other side.
02:01Even when it happens at the relationship between have been any other infections.
02:03In the last position, it is very difficult to obtain the eye.
02:05Then the eye that the eye gets off when they're on the other side.
02:06In the eye is very difficult to repair the eye.
02:13The hospital's eye care department is sealed and a magisterial inquiry ordered.
02:34A district-level committee has also been formed.
02:38The health department has taken statements of patients and doctors.
02:52For now, the hospital remains sealed and the inquiry report is expected shortly.
02:58A report that could determine whether medical negligence caused 18 people to lose this site.
03:03With Gajendra Tripathi from Gorakhpur, Bureau Report, India Today.
03:12Every time we do a Get Real India story, I hope that there are people out there who realize that
03:20we live in a society which is deeply unequal.
03:24That all the glitz that we see at times, the photo ops and the belief that India has moved ahead
03:36and is moving towards becoming the third largest economy in the world.
03:40While that may be true and the glass is half full, the reminder is that there are parts of the
03:46country where the glass is half empty.
03:48And it's those parts that we believe our Get Real India stories attempt to focus public attention on.
03:57Because those are the stories that we hope will make a difference to the lives of those affected.
04:04Governance is critical in a way to ensure a better India.
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