KARACHI: Corneal graft facility

Published May 21, 2007

KARACHI, May 20: The corneal graft facility has been revived at the Spencer’s Eye Hospital and patients may avail the same free of cost as all expenses will be borne by the city government.

According to a press release, a delegation of the Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society recently visited the hospital where medical superintendent Dr Mashhood-uz-Zafar gave it a briefing about the hospital.

He said the corneal graft facility, which had been stopped about 12 years back, had also been revived in the hospital.

President of the Society Mrs Hudson Sylva appreciated the services being provided by the hospital.—Staff Reporter

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