MUMBAI: A novel occasion of South Asian regional cooperation unfolded when a Mumbai-based eye surgeon operated on a blind man from Lahore at an eye fixed hospital in Colombo earlier this month.
The extraordinary circumstances arose after the Pakistani affected person was unable to get an Indian medical visa regardless of 4 months of follow-up at his finish in addition to by eye surgeon Dr Quresh Maskati from Mumbai.”As I used to be scheduled to go to Colombo for a convention, I approached Sri Lankan Medical Council for a licence to function on the affected person there and it agreed,” mentioned Dr Maskati. With assist from native eye surgeon Dr Kusum Rathnayake, he carried out the operation in Colombo on Sept 13.
The affected person, who returned house on Sept 24, informed TOI he may see his household, together with his seven-year-old daughter, for the primary time in 4 years. “Whereas cleansing our attic, a bottle of alkaline resolution broke and its content material poured onto my head and face,” mentioned the 30-year-old. His proper eye was utterly broken, and specialists carried out corneal transplants twice on his left eye however each makes an attempt failed.
“As his solely hope was a man-made cornea, his native physician obtained in contact with me,” mentioned Dr Maskati. He met the affected person when he visited Pakistan for a convention and felt a man-made cornea would work. Partial imaginative and prescient of the affected person was restored inside 48 hours of the operation.
