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Punjab government has announced to bear expenditures of a girls medical treatment, who lost her eyes due to alleged negligence of the doctors after Dunya News broadcasted the news on Tuesday. As per reports, doctors negligence cost an eight-year-old girl Javeria of her eyesight on Tuesday. Javeria, resident of a village in Chiniot developed pain in her eyes four months back. She was initially treated in Chiniot but was taken to the Allied Hospital in Faisalabad and then Fazal Umar Hospital in Chanab Nagar. Later, she was transferred to a Children Hospital in Lahore, where she remained under treatment for seven days. According to the girls father, the doctors in the hospital prescribed eye drops for her which only exacerbated her pain. Eventually, she lost her eye sight. The parents have appealed to the government to take action against the doctors. Allah Yar, father of Javeria, had borrowed Rs 250,000 for her treatment.
