{"id":120886,"date":"2021-12-04T16:29:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T23:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120886"},"modified":"2021-12-04T16:29:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T23:29:02","slug":"sri-lankan-donated-us-35000-eyes-but-we-lost-sight-former-spence-hospital-head-dr-brohi-speaks-to-samaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/04\/sri-lankan-donated-us-35000-eyes-but-we-lost-sight-former-spence-hospital-head-dr-brohi-speaks-to-samaa\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sri Lankan donated us 35,000 eyes, but we lost sight\u2019-Former Spence Hospital head Dr Brohi speaks to SAMAA"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAMAA |\u00a0Hamid ur Rehman<\/a>\u00a0–<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Dr Niaz Brohi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pakistan is the largest recipient of eye donations from Sri Lanka, having received at least 35,000 corneas since 1967, says Dr Niaz Brohi a leading ophthalmologist of the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is a member of the Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society from Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ever since a mob lynched the Sri Lankan national Priyanatha Kumuara in Sialkot on Friday, Dr Brohi says he has been grief-stricken like many others in the country. We hang our heads in shame,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has written to the Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society to offer condolence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brohi, a former head of the famous Spencer Eye Hospital in Karachi, has performed several cornea transplants so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to SAMAA Digital<\/em>, he said Sri Lanka has donated 83,200 corneas to different countries in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brohi claims Pakistan is the largest recipient of Sri Lankan cornea donations having received 40% of them. Since 1967, the Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society has donated 35,000 eye corneas to Pakistan, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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