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IRIS company must compensate eye surgery victims

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Published: 08:13, 15 November 2018   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
IRIS company must compensate eye surgery victims

Staff Correspondent: The Supreme Court (SC) upheld a High Court verdict that directed Impact Masudul Hoque Memorial Community Health Centre and IRIS enterprise, a medicine supplier, to pay Tk 10 lakh in compensation to each of the 17 victims who lost their eyesight following surgery at a health camp in March this year.

A seven-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order after hearing on a writ petition on Thursday.

Earlier, IRIS enterprise filed the writ petition seeking stay on the High Court verdict.

Advocate Amit Das Gupta stood for the writ petition and said that the High Court verdict will remain in force following the Supreme Court order.

Therefore, the IRIS Enterprise has to pay the money to the victim in a month as the health centre has already paid them Tk 5 lakh each as per the High Court verdict, Amit Das said.

Tthe High Court on October 21 directed Impact Masudul Hoque Memorial Community Health Centre in Chuadanga and IRIS Enterprise to pay Tk 10 lakh in compensation to each of the 17 victims.

On March 5, twenty-four patients underwent cataract operations at the hospital in and a day after the surgery, all the patients were released.

But a few hours after returning home, 20 of them felt severe pain in their eyes due to infection.


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