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sws4420
11-16-2005, 09:07 AM
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.


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Venus
11-16-2005, 09:12 AM
EEEWWWWW!!!
Cutesunshine
11-16-2005, 09:16 AM
That is gross. I've heard of maggots, but never ants. Sweet jesus thats nasty.
sws4420
11-16-2005, 09:17 AM
I didn't even realize that ants were into live meat.
Cutesunshine
11-16-2005, 09:19 AM
Its not even meat... Its more fluid than anything.
sws4420
11-16-2005, 09:20 AM
What kind of fluid? Fatty stuff? Saline-like?
Cutesunshine
11-16-2005, 09:22 AM
fluid. Fluid. FLUID.
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Mel
11-16-2005, 09:23 AM
Well I was hungry til I read this. That's just gross. They should have atleast checked it, when she was expressing her pain.
sws4420
11-16-2005, 01:22 PM
She didn't feel it? I hate that feeling when it feels like there's a bug on you, but there isn't. That's weird. I'd have rubbed my eye or something.
Mel
11-16-2005, 08:19 PM
She didn't feel it? I hate that feeling when it feels like there's a bug on you, but there isn't. That's weird. I'd have rubbed my eye or something.
What do you mean, she didn't feel it?


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.

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sws4420
11-16-2005, 11:36 PM
There's a big difference between pain from surgery and feeling ants crawling around in your eye.

Dickcheese.
Jimmerz
11-17-2005, 07:15 AM
probably had somthing to do with the insulin..and seeing that the eye was an open wound to begin with the ants can probably smell that insulin...