November 15, 2005
NASTY! Ants eat away woman's eye in hospital
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.
via: Ants eat away woman's eye in hospital - Yahoo! News
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I had a patient who did this when I worked at the mental hospital - I didn't see it happen, but they told me it was "spectacular"........
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Comments
OH MY GOD!!!!! HOLY....
WTF! No pictures
naughty--->please don't post pictures! I don't think anyone wants to see this!
this is hilarious, describe the conditions of the hospital and people coming from India that are trained as doctors want their education recognized? Anyone else happy as hell that it isn't?
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