this story originally appeared in on oct 10 2016eight months after 16 patients lost their vision at a civicrun hospital their lives have become miserable and their future bleak while its back to business as usual for the doctors and support staff at c h nagri eye hospital who treated them with most patients losing their daily source of livelihood and becoming dependent on family members to carry out their daily activities a threemember committee of doctors set up by the then municipal commissioner has absolved the hospital staff of any wrongdoing while the food and drug control department has found no quality issues with the intravitreal drug administered to the patientsso if there were no issues with the drug nor the hospital staff held responsible for the patients condition what went wrong begs answers when asked if the drug was found to be faulty dr hemant koshia commissioner of food and drug control administration gujarat said no we did not find any quality issues with the drug we had even summoned the manufacturer to confirm the batch details which they did amc standing committee chairman pravin patel claims they have restored vision of almost all the patients regarding compensation patel said some of the patients not only got their vision back but also could do see well than before so we did not feel any need of compensationhowever when mirror talked to 10 patients and their relatives only one was satisfied that his vision has been restored while the others said that the incident has ruined their life most of them cannot move out of their houses without support with amc not providing any compensation to the victims and most of them only earning members of their families life has turned for the worsenagri hospital doctors have ruined my life it was a good life eight months ago earning rs 250 per day at arti spinning factory in rakhial i was comfortable working on the machine at the time however after being treated in my left eye at the hospital i lost my vision now i am unable to earn and am dependent on others for money and movement said hirabhai parmarthe 60yearold now suffers from blood pressure and cannot hear properly the incident happened after intravitreal drug avastin was administered to the patients having retinal vascular disorders due to various reasons like diabetes senile agerelated macular degeneration hypertension etc on january 12 between 1130 am and 1pm as per the preliminary report submitted by the threemember panel of dr shashank patel dr bharat ghodadra and dr beena desai to the municipal commissioner and amc metdipak nimje 52 of hatkeshwar lost vision in his left eye my right eye has been damaged for years so i totally dependent on my left eye after the incident i have lost my vision i ran a garage before this incident and would earn rs 300 daily but now i cannot ride a scooter and am confined at home as i cannot bear