Pay compensation to victims: SC
The Supreme Court yesterday upheld an High Court verdict that directed Impact Masudul Hoque Memorial Community Health Centre in Chuadanga 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 apex court headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the “no order” on a petition filed by IRIS Enterprise seeking stay on the HC verdict.
Following the apex court's order, the HC verdict will remain in force, Advocate Amit Das Gupta said.
Therefore, IRIS Enterprise will have to pay the money to the victims in a month as Impact Masudul Hoque Memorial Community Health Centre, the organiser of the health camp, has already paid them Tk 5 lakh each as per the HC order, Advocate Amit added.
The HC on October 21 directed Impact Masudul Hoque Memorial Community Health Centre in Chuadanga and IRIS Enterprise to pay Tk 10 lakh in compensation to the 17 victims.
The court also ordered them to share the burden of the compensation equally.
On March 5, twenty-four patients underwent cataract operations at the hospital 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 infections.
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