<span style="color: #222222;">National Human Rights Commission has issued a notice to the Bihar government over reported botched-up cataract surgeries resulting in removal of eyes of several patients at a government hospital in Muzaffarpur.<br />'' <br />'' The Commission took suo motu cognizance of a media report that the eyes of six patients had to be removed due to botched-up cataract surgeries at Shrikrishna Medical College & Hospital, SKMCH in Muzaffarpur, Bihar on the  22nd  of last month.  A press release from the Commission said the doctors may require removing the eyes of about a dozen more patients due to infections after the surgery. It said, as per medical protocol, a doctor could conduct up to 12 surgeries, but in this case, the doctor conducted surgery on 65 patients.<br />'' <br />'' The Commission has observed that the contents of the media report, if true, raise a serious issue of human rights violation.  Conducting eye surgeries in such a reckless manner, violating norms of the medical protocols at a government hospital, is a serious matter of concern.<br />'' <br />''<br />''The notice issued to the Chief Secretary,  Bihar has called for a detailed report on the matter.</span>