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Saudi doctor brings sight to French patient using innovative procedure

May 23, 2021

LYON — 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


May 23, 2021
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