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Boy blinded in horrific attack recovering well after implants

By Dong Zhen | September 11, 2013, Wednesday | Online Edition

THE six-year-old boy whose eyes were gouged out in a horrific attack late last month and got implants yesterday and is recovering well today, doctors said.

The implants are a precursor to fitting the boy, Bin Bin, with prosthetic eyes that will look and move more like normal eyes, but do not restore vision.

The five-hour operation, conducted by a team led by Hong Kong-based eye expert Dennis Lam at his hospital in the southern city of Shenzhen, was completed yesterday evening.

Lam offered free surgery after hearing the brutal story of the boy from north China’s Shanxi Province.

Inggie Ho, an assistant to Dr Lam, said that the surgery had gone well and the little boy should be fitted with prosthetic eyes in four to six weeks.

Lam was optimistic about the boy’s recovery and said he will be able to produce tears normally when he recovers.

The hospital will train the boy by year’s end to use a sensory navigation tool, with which he will be able to walk independently.

Lam says future technology might help Guo regain up to 40 percent of his lost vision.

The next stage of treatment would be fitting tiny cameras in Guo’s eyeballs which would relay a signal, based on the shape of objects in front of him, to an electric pulse generator connected to his tongue. With training, he would be able to sense shapes, Lam said.

Zhang Huiying, 41, the boy’s aunt, has been identified by police as the suspect in the attack based on investigations and DNA test results last week.

She took her own life when she jumped down a well on August 30, six days after Bin Bin’s attack, local police said.

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