An 18-month-old child underwent a procedure on the wrong eye at the Bangladesh Eye Hospital in Dhaka on Tuesday.
The procedure, intended to address an issue in the child's left eye, was performed on the right eye first. Upon realising the error, the doctor performed a second procedure on the correct eye.
The incident has left the family of the child, Irtiza Ariz Hasan, deeply upset and demanding accountability.
According to Irtiza's father, Md Mahmud Hasan, they brought their son to the hospital on Tuesday afternoon due to a problem in his left eye. A doctor diagnosed the issue as dust in the eye lens, which required surgical removal. The procedure was conducted around 8:30pm.
"After the surgery, we were shocked to see that the operation had been performed on his right eye. When I pointed out the mistake, the doctor admitted it, saying, 'Oh my God, sorry,'" Mahmud recounted.
The doctor then took the child back to the OT to perform procedure on the left eye.
Mahmud claimed the hospital refused to give discharge report admitting the mistake.