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by pndy
254 days ago
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It's here already - at least for the developed countries. It's both thanks to this multitool used to handle the surgery - destroying, removing natural lens and replacing it with an implant, and technology that allowed creating customized intraocular lenses pretty fast. My mother had her eyes done 2 years ago with one month break between. I did set timer on second surgery and it was just 20 minutes once she was inside. The only thing we had to care about were drops administered 4 times a day before and after the procedure - for once multiple alarms on my phone were useful. And of course control visit with dressing removal that happens for every patient on second day. In my city a duet of two doctors runs an ophthalmology clinic and seems they have some good contracts with health services because they're always busy and have shorter waiting lists than clinic at our local hospital. Both women handle a queue of about 20 people and each weekday is dedicated to a different issues, with serious surgeries reserved for weekends. I ask one of doctors if failed cataract surgeries happen because I was concerned before the first time my mum had it. She said that these are extremely rare but if a patient needs another it happens again pretty fast. The issue might be with lens that moved inside due to e.g. patient activity shortly after the procedure. I do remember some short documentary about probably an Indian surgeon who treated eyes of North Korean elderly people. He also visited other places around the world as sort of personal goal to give new eye care technology in places where is needed but socio-economic conditions do not allow it. I'll try to find that unless someone happen to know that man's name. |
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