Damn. This does not feel good whichever way you read it. It's a short one so the entire post is here."KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - A woman receiving treatment for diabetes at a state-run hospital in eastern India lost one of her eyes after ants nibbled away at it, officials said on Tuesday. The patient recovering from a post-surgery infection shrieked for help as the ants attacked her on Sunday night, but nurses told her it was normal to feel pain from the infection.
On Monday, the patient's family saw a gaping hole with swarming ants in it when they lifted the bandage on her left eye.
Authorities of the Sambhunath Hospital in Kolkata said they were probing the incident.
"It's not uncommon for ants to attack diabetic patients. We have set up a committee to investigate the unfortunate incident," hospital superintendent A. Adhikary said. Scampering rats and stray cats and dogs sharing bed space with patients are not uncommon sights at India's overcrowded state-run hospitals that are used by millions of poor and middle-class people.
A few things to note :
- I am not surprised it is in India. It has some of the poorest people in the world.
- What I AM surprised about is the sheer laziness of not checking. You're a NURSE. It's your fucking JOB to check on things like this.
- Not uncommon to be attacked? WTF?
- I, thankfully for a few brief moments only, imagined what it was like to feel hundreds of ant bites for hours on end. To KNOW that you are being attacked and to be forced to accept it helplessly. I shuddered.
Damn, I'm thankful for a lot of small things and an affordable, reliable medical infrastructure is currently on the top of my list. :o
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This is truely unbelievable!! How could this happen on earth?!
oh Jacky, it was a horrible story to read :I
My thoughts exactly, they should take the attending nurses and place them naked, neck-high, in a fire ant hill and let them sit there until they rot. I can only imagine how her relatives must feel.
LuvrGrl - I really feel a lot of sympathy for the woman and her family. A terrible thing to have happened. Like Jacky mentioned, one would never have thought it could happen in this day and age!
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