Sight restored for 26/11 Police hero of Mumbai terrorist attacks

26 November 2008 is a day police commando Venkatesh Kadam will never forget. He was badly injured in one of the terrorist attacks that rocked the city’s principal hotels and tourist attractions. He lost his sight in one eye.

But the wounded hero will prefer to remember today, when his sight was restored by one of the top eye surgeons in India and the World, Dr. Keiki R. Mehta.
Commando Kadam sustained severe injuries last November to his right eye and as a result he lost his vision in that eye. “I could not see anything before, but now I can see everything”, said Mr Kadam after he and another seventeen patients, police officers all involved in the Mumbai terror attacks and some of their close relatives, were operated on in a dedicated surgery session by PadmaShree Professor Dr. Keiki R. Mehta.
An Advanced Cataract Surgery Eye Camp set up to help these 26/11 victims and close relatives at the Nagpada Police Hospital. Dr. Mehta explained that the hospital has a recently inaugurated state-of-the-art operating theatre complex and the camp was supported by voluntary donation, including a gift of specialized cataract implant intraocular lenses from Rayner Intraocular Lenses Ltd and their local distributor and Mumbai company, Surgicon Healthcare.
Mr. Rajesh Dave, President of Surgicon said “we are immensely proud of this project. This is typical of the kind of charitable work Rayner and its partner companies get involved in”. In its 60 years’ history, it is estimated that Rayner donated more than a million IOLs, especially to developing countries and charitable mission hospitals.

Professor Dr. Keiki R. Mehta is the Chief Surgeon at the Nagpada Police Hospital and Surgical & Medical Director at the Mehta International Eye Institute in Colaba, Mumbai, India.