Indian Eye Hospitals Scam Patients Out of Money Reserved for Surgeries

"More trouble is in store for health officials in Uttar Pradesh. Initial reports after the CBI raid on 10 eye hospitals revealed a clandestine arrangement between doctors and NGOs for siphoning away funds meant for blindness eradication in the state," reports DaijiWorld. "The most startling revealations being that half of the cataract surgeries as claimed by the health department never took place. The fact emerged after the documents seized. The state already had witnessed gory murder of three senior health officials including Chief Medical Officers (CMO) Dr VK Arya and Dr BP Singh and one DyCMO Dr YS Sachan who was murdered inside jail at Lucknow. One former CMO of Lucknow Dr AK Shukla is already facing criminal charges for dwindling away funds under blindness eradication programme during his tenure." Read more.