Saudi doctor brings sight to French patient using innovative procedure

  • 5/23/2021
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A Saudi doctor on scholarship, along with his French colleagues, has managed to apply a rarely different method for implanting a new lens on a near-blind patient.The operation, applied to very few worldwide, included a microscopic examination and extracting of the old lens to implant the new one. The procedure on the patient, performed under local anesthesia, took about an hour and a half. Dr. Amro Abu Khashaba is a physician on scholarship at Hospital La Croix-Rousse in Lyon, France, and he specializes in retina surgery within the Saudi-French Medical Program. In an statement to Saudi Press Agency (SPA), he praised the outstanding support of the Kingdom"s government to the scholarships and Saudi cadres abroad. — SPA

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