shocking rajasthan hospital wasted 742 donated eyes in last 15 years

Jodhpur: A Right To Information reply has revealed a very shocking fact that from the year 1996 to 2011 Dr SN Medical College received 1,805 eyes as donations and transplanted only 1,063 of them.

There is no answer from the medical college exactly what happened to the remaining 742 eyes as this information was not sought in the RTI applicationA three-member committee has been set up to probe the missing eyes by the government.Subodh Agarwal, the principal secretary medical education has ordered to Jodhpur divisional commissioner Hemant Gera who is heading the committee to submit a report within three days.The college was silent on the 742 eyes of which there is no record, in the RTI reply. A section of the media reported yesterday that the apathy of medical college officials caused a loss of 742 donated eyes.On November 20 RTI applicant Virendra Raj Mehta, a retired government official sought details of eye donations and their use.Though he demanded figures from the beginning of college in 1965, the administration provided year-wise figures from 1996 to 2011.Mehta revealed the fact that college told him verbally that they preserve the unfit eyes for other uses.On the other hand the medical college said the unused eyes were either infected, unfit for a transplant or were used for dissection by postgraduate students

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