The development has opened a can of worms for the hospital as this is not a one-off incidence when the medical institution made headlines for all the wrong reasons.
After extracting the eel, the physicians also removed a lemon from the anus. After ensuring that there were no further foreign objects, the rectum and colon holes were attached.
Justice Panigrahi of Orissa High Court asked the chief secretary to send a circular to the state's government and private medical institutes and hospitals requiring doctors to write the names of medications clearly.
Telangana State Medical Council suspends licence of 2 doctors for negligence, one operated on wrong leg of a patient, other failed to refer a patient for better treatment
Significantly, private hospitals and doctors in Rajasthan have been protesting against the Right to Health (RTH) bill through a work boycott urging the state government not to implement it.