I'll have nightmares for weeks.

[heyjupiter678]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051115/od_nm/india_ants_dc

Ants eat away woman's eye in hospital

Tue Nov 15,10:26 AM ET

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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[wondergirl9847]

Sheesh, I cannot even imagine how that felt. Ew. Poor lady.

[Dreammms]

Omg! That is horrible.

[SuzeQuze]

:shudder: That is the most disgusting thing. That poor woman.

[michelle2677]

OMG....just..OMG..that's all I can say right now....

[DavidMn]

Its both disgusting and sad at the same time.

[reebokandlace]

It really is sad. We forget how lucky we are to live in a country that is relatively clean. I am not that surprised though....this is the same country who burn their dead in the public square.

Don't worry things are getting much better in India....they have 90% of the American's call center jobs. At $19,000 a year the people who work in those call centers (50 hours a week) are LITERALLY living like kings. The average pay was $8000 a year until American companies went over there, hired cheap labor, offering no benefits and do not have to pay US taxes.