Tackling blindness with focus on vision
- Chris McMillan
- Sep 8, 2024
- 1 min read
China Daily
17th June 2024
Tackling blindness with focus on vision
"I never expected to not only have my eyes saved, but also continue to save lives in the operating room," said an anesthesiologist surnamed Cheng in Chongqing municipality. After being diagnosed with ocular melanoma, Cheng feared that he would lose his eyes.
The removal of eyeballs is a common method for treating intraocular tumors. However, Wei Wenbin, from the Beijing Tongren Hospital, broke the tradition by pioneering the use of partial excision and radiotherapy in China.
When Wei informed Cheng that both his life and eyes could be saved, he realized that his fate could be altered.
As a leading unit of the national technical guidance group for blindness prevention and a World Health Organization collaboration center for the prevention of blindness, the Beijing Tongren Hospital has made a series of breakthroughs in recent years.
These include offering an easier and more widely applicable treatment for ocular melanoma and advocating for the establishment of an infectious eye disease diagnosis and treatment center in Beijing to address eye diseases in patients with liver disease, HIV/AIDS, and other infectious diseases.
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