Eyesight of 7-year-old Roddy restored

It was not his fault, but he was badly hurt. Fortunately, it was only the blunt end of a dart that hit the seven-year-old Roddy from the village of Kuruka in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea in the left eye. Nevertheless, it was seriously injured.

As a result, a traumatic cataract developed, so that he now had to have his lens removed with automated vitrectomy at the Rural Hospital of Kainantu. Dr Waimbe Wahamu, the attending ophthalmologist, inserted an anterior chamber lens (ACIOL) because it was determined intraoperatively that he had suffered a rupture of the posterior lens capsule with vitreous prolapse.

Preoperatively, Roddy had a visual acuity with which he could barely see his hand movement at one-meter distance (2%). But already on the first day post op, his left visual acuity improved to 50%, which he and his mother are very happy about.