Shahedara Begum, a consultant pediatric ophthalmologist and strabismus surgeon of Bangladesh Eye Hospital, has been arrested in a case filed on charge of mistakenly operating the wrong eye of an 18-month-old child.
Police arrested her from her Elephant Road residence around 2AM on Thursday, said Dhanmondi Police Station OC Ali Ahmed Masud.
Shahedara Begum was sent to court after showing her arrested in the case, the OC added.
Earlier, the victim's father Mahmud Hasan lodged the case with the police station.
Irtiza Ariz Hasan was brought to the Bangladesh Eye Hospital at Dhanmondi on Tuesday for treatment of one of his eyes. But the doctor mistakenly conducted a surgery on his healthy eye, according to the case statement.
The physician confirmed there was a dirt-like object in the left eye of the child. Irtiza Ariz underwent all the necessary medical tests required before the surgery, was given anesthesia and taken to the operation theatre.
However, after the child was brought out of the operation theatre, the family saw that the surgery had been performed on the right eye instead of the left one.
After they informed the doctor, the child was taken to the operation theatre again and the surgery was completed on the left eye, the family alleged.
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