EHA

Sadhna's Sight Restored

Sadhna’s world came crashing down when she lost sight in both her eyes. Only 35 years old, and when she should be busily managing her household, Sadhna had to depend on her teenage daughter to run her home. Sadhna could not do even the most simple things by herself. Her husband a poor teacher could not afford to take her to a hospital. Mother of four children, Sadhna struggled with her life. And then Sadhna heard about the eye camp at Ashok Nagar. This eye camp was being conducted by the Harriet Benson Memorial Hospital, an EHA unit at Lalitpur, Madhya Pradesh. With great expectation, Sadhna persuaded her husband to take her to the camp. She hoped against hope that she would be able to get back her sight. At the eye camp, the doctor screened her and found she was bilaterally blind. The eye team decided to do the intraocular lens surgery in her eyes. She was operated on and the operation was a success. Sadhna couldn’t believe her eyes when she found that she could indeed see! Sadhna walked back home, sight restored, eager to pick up the threads of her life again.