CM promises help to Nasreen Banu

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, OCT. 16. The Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, on Monday assured Ms. Nasreen Banu, who lost her sight following gross medical negligence at Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital in 1980, of all possible help from the Government.

Her case wherein doctors callously removed the healthy right eye when they were supposed to have operated on her malignant left eye - she was just two years old then - had stirred the collective conscience of the nation.

The 22-year old Ms. Banu along with her mother, Mrs. Mehmooda Begum, met the Chief Minister here and apprised him of her family's grave financial situation.

In a memorandum, Mrs. Mehmooda Begum urged the Chief Minister to provide some constant means of support to her daughter. "She has neither the monetary nor social support to stand on her own feet and I am struggling to make both ends meet," she lamented. Banu's father, Bahadur Khan, who was a machine operator in the erstwhile Allwyn Metal Works, died fighting an unending Court battle with the authorities of the Medical and Health Department in 1993, "leaving us in penury and we even gave up the case as we could not afford the costs".

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