MULTAN: Doctors are trying their best to stop the infection from developing into the second eye of the patients who are under treatment in Nishtar Hospital after loss of vision from an eye.
Official sources said on Monday that two of the three patients hailing from Jhnag had lost eyesight of one eye while the third could see partially after wrong treatment by an injection used for diabetics to restore vision.
They stated that the medics were curing their second eye from developing the infection, adding that all medicines were being provided to the patients from the health facility even on a local purchase basis.
All three patients are elderly including Ghulam Fatima (73), Zahida Bibi (65) and Sardar Muhammad (64) they said and added that one of the females are confirmed sugar patient while a test for another had been sent to the pathology lab for confirmation, and the third patient is non-diabetic.
The patients were referred to Nishtar Hospital from DHQ Jhang where they were injected on Sept 21, they concluded.