After a frustrating bout of only seeing through his left eye, the vision of local firefighter Shameer Nazeer has been restored following a corneal transplant done at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

Nazeer, a firefighter of nine years and a qualified electrician by trade, felt an irritation in his eye and thought that he was affected by conjunctivitis – or what is commonly called ‘red eye’. Acting on this assumption, he visited a pharmacy to purchase eye drops.

But, those eye drops did not provide the relief he yearned for; in fact, the irritation in his eye persisted. As he grappled with this irritation, one morning, he woke up and saw a white spot on his left eye.

Worriedly, he visited an eye clinic. There he was told that there was an infection in his eye. Later, he was diagnosed with a corneal infection.

A corneal infection causes the cornea, the transparent tissue at the front of the eye, to get cloudy, which makes seeing clearly, or even seeing at all, difficult, local ophthalmologist Dr. Celeste Hinds told the News Room on Thursday.

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