Ophthalmologist Removes a Piece of Needle from Eye of Retina Patient

01 June 2022, Bahera Ashram (Chauparan, Hazaribagh): During a retina surgery held on 31 May 2022 at NBJK run LokNayak JayPrakash Eye Hospital, Bahera (Chauparan, Hazaribagh), about 8 mm long piece of tailoring needle has been removed from left eye of a patient. He is Md. Gufran, son of Sattar Miyan, Nawadih (Gaya) and that metal piece was staying in his eye since last four years.

When asked about beginning of the problem, Md. Gufran told that he is a tailor by profession and about 4 years back when he was busy on sewing machine, suddenly something penetrated quickly in his eye and left a prick like feeling. Since that pain was not so acute, I took it lightly and depended upon home remedies. That sting persisted and I went to many places for treatment but couldn’t get any relief.

Lastly I came to LNJPEH, with initial checkup they referred me to Retina unit and after surgery I could know about this needle’s piece inside my eye, Gufran says.

Dr. (Ms.) Archna Kumari who operated Md. Gufran’ eye, articulates about dipping of such metal piece in retina which caused gradual decline of vision and If it is not removed for a few more days then the patient’s eye could be completely damaged with last option as complete removal of infected eye but we have avoided that successfully, she adds.

Md. Gufran, the eye patient expresses sincere gratitude towards Dr. Archna with entire team of LNJPEH and shares about his post surgery happiness. These people have saved my livelihood and my family as many people are dependent upon me, he states.