Camps Of Death: A timeline of mishaps at medical camps in the state
2011 Nearly 300 operations were performed in Balod village. Four people lost their lives, while 52 lost their eyesight completely. Some paramedics were suspended. An inquiry by a team from AIIMS revealed nothing more sinister than some “unnamed problems with some unnamed medicines”
Against the target of 1,000, experts of the state government performed 1,098 operations in Kawardha. Twenty people lost their eyesight and two lost their lives. An inquiry was inconclusive
2012 Nearly 145 eye operations were performed in Bagbahara. Twelve people reported partial loss of eyesight
Around 200 operations were performed in Durg. Three patients lost their eyesight completely and 12 partially
722 girls in Bilaspur and Raipur complained that their uterus was missing after they were admitted to private clinics running a government sterilisation programme. The doctors’ defence was that the uteruses were cancer-infected. The registration of several doctors was cancelled, but the Indian Medical Association managed to reverse the move
2013 Seven women ended up with severely butchered stomachs during a sterilisation programme in Durg
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