PINDI: Pakistan has achieved a medical milestone with the nation’s first profitable corneal transplant from a feminine donor, restoring sight to 2 troopers who had misplaced their imaginative and prescient throughout counter-terrorism operations.
The corneas had been donated to the Armed Forces Institute of Ophthalmology (AFIO) in accordance with the desire of the late spouse of Main Basic (Retd) Zafar Mehdi Askari.
Specialist surgeons from the Pakistan Military carried out the transplants on 30-year-old soldier Aliullah and 26-year-old soldier Falak Sher, efficiently restoring their eyesight.
The achievement marks a big step ahead in Pakistan’s medical discipline and underscores the rising potential of organ donation within the nation.
The donor’s daughter, Zehra Mehdi, expressed immense satisfaction in her mom’s act of generosity:
“The best honour is that my mom’s eyes had been donated to 2 courageous troopers,” she stated, describing the transplant as “a supply of everlasting charity (sadaqah-e-jariyah)”.
The AFIO’s pioneering surgical process to revive imaginative and prescient has been hailed as a historic and commendable medical accomplishment.
Specialists, nevertheless, proceed to warn of the shortage of organ donations within the nation because of social misconceptions. In Pakistan, as many as 10 to fifteen folks die on daily basis because of the unavailability of organs, a quantity that reaches as much as 20 in the USA.
Medical professionals have referred to as for pressing reforms to advertise each dwelling and posthumous donations whereas exploring the potential of xenotransplantation (animal-to-human organ transfers) to handle the rising disaster.
Regardless of the rising variety of sufferers affected by organ failure, cultural taboos and spiritual hesitation proceed to stop many Pakistanis from donating organs, leaving 1000’s ready, and sometimes dying, for a second likelihood at life.
