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Girl blinded
Surgeons remove
the wrong eye
By JOAN J.CIRILLO
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -
Bahadur Khan knew something
was wrong the minute he saw
his 2 and one-half year-old
daughter being wheeled out of
the operating room. The
Abandage was wrapped over the
wrong eye.
The surgeon had cut out the
good eye, not the one rotting
with cancer.1
Doctors at the Indian
government hospital in
Hyderabad ~ had blinded
Nasreen Banu for life. Her
father, a $100-a-month
mechanic from Hyderabad,
doesn’t blame anyone. He just
cannot understand.
"If I make a mistake in my
factory, I would say, ‘OK, I’m
uneducated. I could make such
a mistake.’ But they are
educated and” professional
people....I am perplexed,’’ he
said.
Nine weeks have passed
since the tragic mix-up.
In that time, the child and her
father have come to New York
for surgery, at Indian govern-
ment expense.
In that time, specialists at the
Eye Tumor Center at New York
Hospital have learned that
cancer has spread to Nasreen’s
spine. Whether the disease
could have been checked had
Indian doctors removed the
correct eye, doctors cannot
say.
Nasreen, a chubby, playful
child with jet black hair and
clear, dark skin, is going home
with her father this weekend,
ending their three-week stay
Two artificial eyes will fill the
hollows left by surgeons in her
country and in New York — Dr.
Robert Ellsworth, director of
the tumor center, could not
restore her sight and had to
remove her diseased eye.
If Nasreen’s life is to be
prolonged, she must submit to a
rigid schedule of intensive
radiation and chemotherapy.
Ellsworth said she has one
chance in 100 to be cured. If she
is not cured, she probably will
die within four years, he said.
“There was a flame in my
heart that my daughter might
see spin. Now l am reconciled
to the will of the god,” said
Khan as he sat, legs crossed, on
the floor of Ronald McDonald
House here, a home for child
cancer victims, where he and
Nasreen have been living.
A shy man, Khan spoke
through an interpreter* as his
daughter played beside him.
She sang "Aba, Aba” (Daddy,
Daddy) and groped at the toys
and gifts sent by Americans
who heard of the tragedy She
climbed into her father’s lap,
crying now and then for at-
tention.
Nasreen has been frightened
and confused since she came to
New York. “She’s still a child.
She only says, T can’t see. It’s
too dark. Where’s Mommy,
where are my sisters and
brothers?”’ said Khan.
The questions — "Why is it so
dark? When will the lights go
back on?” — have been on her
lips since the day after the
Indian doctors cut out the
wrong eye.
No one knows exactly what
caused the mix-up at the
Sarojini Eye Hospital on Feb.
22. Indian officials have
speculated the chart that ac-
companied Nasreen into the
operating room was
inismarked.
The incident sparked such a
furor in India that state
legislators called for an in-
vestigation. Officials
suspended the doctors involved
' and promised to pay for future
medical treatment.
That treatment in New York
has been painful for Nasreen.
She wails when strangers touch
her. She doesn’t like American
food and is uncomfortable in
the cool weather.
"The only thing she likes
about New York is ice cream;’
her father said, smiling.
Ellsworth has been emphatic
about Nasreen getting the right
drugs and the best treatment.
She will undergo cancer
therapy under Rao’s care at
Hyderabad Cancer Hospital in
south-central India.
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 100, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 27, 1980, newspaper, April 27, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth824638/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.