Premature child undergoes vision correction in Oman

Oman Wednesday 25/September/2019 10:48 AM
By: Times News Service
Premature child undergoes vision correction in Oman

Muscat: A team of specialists at the Al Rustaq hospital has succeeded in conducting a vision correction treatment for a premature child.

Al Rustaq Hospital said in a statement online: "For the first time at Rustaq hospital, the ophthalmology department, with the help of anesthesia department and pediatric treatment of retinopathy treated a premature child and has successfully injected the drug lucentis inside the eye, which is a modern technology to treat this disease that affects premature infants."

"Then the child was taken care of after being treated as he successfully healed up," the statement added.