Two surgeries later, 18 years old boy finally gets back vision

When 18 years old Ajinkya Mutha was brought to hospital two weeks ago, no one, not even the doctors, thought he would ever get his sight back. But, now there’s a ray of hope that has emerged for ajinkya, post two surgeries performed on his injured eye.A first year student of commerce from Ruparel College, Ajinkya, was watching some children through stones at a mango tree, when one of the stones hit him in the face.

“when the stone hits him, the glass of his spectacles broke and pierced his left eye,” said Virendra mutha, Ajinkya’s father, who rushed to the city from nashik.

“His left eye – including the cornea and the sclera was torn in half. He suffered a lot of bleeding from his eye,” said Dr. HImanshu Mehta, Ophthalmologist, The Vission Eye Center, Juhu Mumbai, who performed the Blade free Lasik eye surgery and cataract eye surgery at this clinic.

He performed the surgeries on Ajinkya, in the first surgery which lasted one and half hours, Mehta performed primary repair on the cornea and sclera as he does for femtosecond laser cataract surgery in Mumbai at his clinic.”.” We also removed the lens of his eye, drained the vitreous fluid a clear gel that fill the space between the lens and the retina of the eyeball, which had blood in it,” added Mehta.

Post the first surgery Ajinkya, who resides in a hostel at jogeshwari, showed some improvement in vision. “later, we performed another surgery, where we fitted a lens in his eye, and also performed a vasectomy surgical removal of the vitreous gel from the eye) to see that there was no retinal detachment in future,” said Mehta.

Not only was Ajinkya’s eye saved post the surgeries, but Mehta was also able to restore the teenagers vision. “However, his damaged eye may never be as good as the other eye,” said Mehta.

Ajinkya has been called for a follow up in another 15 days, and his stitches are yet to be removed,” said virendra, adding that the entire procedure cost him about Rs 1 lakh.

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