Yemeni wounded regain sight,but thousands still die everyday

YemenExtra

Sameer Abdo was the victim citizen of a bomb blast in Yemen by the US-Saudi coalition’s raids, that cost him his left eye and blinded him in the right.

Suffering from severe pain in his eyes, the 37-year-old reached out to the city’s Dr Agarwal Eye hospital and within three days of being operated on, regained 85 per cent of his vision.

Diagnosed with corneal opacity, traumatic cataract and haemorrhage in his eye, he underwent multiple surgeries to restore his sight.

Corneal , cataract and retina surgeons were involved in treating him and almost restoring his vision.

“We performed multiple surgeries on Sameer. We found he was suffering from traumatic cataract and vitreous hemorrhage, resulting in bleeding inside the eye.

Explaining the procedure, Dr Bindhya, consultant ophthalmologist at the hospital, says “We first started with the complicated procedure of removing multiple minute foreign particles in the cornea and then performed the traumatic cataract surgery using intraocular lense implantation and an intra- vitreal injection.

After three days of immense observation the patient regained 85 per cent of his vision.”

Sameer is one of the wounded who was lucky and recovered after much suffering and costs. Yemen has thousands of people who have not been lucky enough to survive in their suffering till today.

It is worth noting that the US-Saudi coalition continues to target civilians hysterically and criminally under the international silence for more than a thousand days.

Thousands of wounded in Yemen are waiting for the chance to travel to receive proper treatment,but the siege continues which causes the death of many.