Jerusalem Doctor Restores Cypriot Woman's Sight

On Monday, the woman, Andrula Hajianu, underwent a complicated three-hour operation by Prof. David Ben-Ezra of the ophthalmology department. The surgery included the use of ultrasound to make holes in her left eye and repair parts that had fused together - the result of a severe, untreated infection that she contracted as a baby.

"The first thing she said when I took off the bandages was that I am very tall," said Ben-Ezra, who noted that the woman - who was accompanied here by someone from the School for the Blind in Cyprus - will now be able to get around and take care of herself. "But it won't be easy to learn to read and she has to learn to differentiate among colors, as her mind was not taught to see."
 

"It was fortunate that doctors in Cyprus were afraid to treat her left eye, in which she was able to see only light, for fear that she would be completely in the dark," Ben-Ezra said. "As a result, we were able to restore her sight, however complex the surgery."
 
By Judy Siegel, Jerusalem Post.