Greater Noida hospital accused of Rs 45,000 'fake' eye surgery on 7-year-old

NOIDA: A hospital in Greater Noida is under scrutiny following allegations of performing a 'fake' eye surgery on a 7-year-old boy, after charging Rs 45,000 for a procedure conducted on the wrong eye.

The boy's father, Nitin Bhati, filed a complaint claiming that his son, Yudhishthir, was operated on the right eye instead of the left, which had been the source of his complaints. The compliant has been forwaded to CMO office and no FIR has been registered yet.

According to Bhati, the boy, Yudhishthir, had visited Anand Spectrum Hospital in Gamma 1 on November 12 for a check-up due to frequent watering in his left eye. After an examination, the doctor reportedly diagnosed a foreign object in his eye and suggested surgery as a solution.

"I took my son Yudhishthir to the same hospital a week ago, where they told me he has an allergy. However, when the irritation was not reduced even after a week, they said he needed anaesthesia and an operation. Later, the doctor said that the operation, which cost Rs 45,000, was successful, and they said a fine metal-like thing was removed from the eye, whose photo was shown on a mobile phone," Bhati told TOI.

However, after returning home, Bhati and his wife realized that the boy's left eye, the one originally affected, had not been operated on. They immediately consulted another eye hospital, where the doctor confirmed that no surgery had been performed. "He scammed us with the money," Bhati added.

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