The Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital at Sant Hirdaram Nagar has treated eyes of 19 persons, who got injured during festivity of Diwali.
Eyes of these persons were injured with fire crackers from November 11 to 14 this year.
They were brought to the hospital where senior ophthalmologist Dr Prerna Upadhyay and her team of 12 surgeons with senior optometrist SD Rao and Jaya Vaswani, diagnosed and treated them.
Of these, one each patient was brought from Sehore, Betul, Kalapipal, Kurawar, Ashta and Bilkisganj while rest were local patients.
The eyes of 35-year-old Kavita from Ashta were injured with a burning cracker. lenses of her both eyes were dislocated.
Ramesh 50 years of Sant Nagar was injured and suffering from swelling in his both corneas. External layer of cornea of 16-year-old Kareena was also damaged.
Similarly, eyes of 11-year-old Vicky of Kurawar, Shyam Singh (38) of Bilkisganj and Rajkumar (22) of Kalapipal were injured with the burning particles of explosive powder. Manohar, Janki had also same ailment in their eyes.
After injury, white layer was emerged on the cornea of these patients.
Kavita of Ashta have a severe injury. She later underwent for her surgery. Rajesh (29), Praveen (35), Yogesh (24), Aakash (50), Amrit (11), Reena (12) and Yash (11), Prakash (50), Sanjeev (30) were injured with the particle of explosive powder affixed with their cornea of these patients.
All these persons are treated. Scratches in cornea of Rohit 11 years, Siddharth 22 years were found.
These boys were also operated. Names of the ailing persons are changed for their sake.