J&K pellet gun victim in Mumbai to regain eyesight

Mumbai: Insha Ahmed, the 14-year-old Kashmiri girl, who had lost both her eyes to a pellet attack in July this year, is back in the city hoping to regain her eyesight.
A previous surgery at the Aditya Jyot Hospital in Wadala could not undo the damage caused by the pieces of the shrapnel.
Insha is accompanied to the city by Jammu and Kashmir’s separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah’s wife, Dr Bilquees, who said that she was their third daughter.“We have come hoping to find a way to get her vision back. We want the doctors to have a fresh look at the case. If doctors advise us to go abroad, we may do that too,” said Dr Bilquees. The girl’s biological parents, Afroza and Mustaq, are also here for the check-up.
Insha had suffered the deadly injuries as she peeped out of their first floor apartment one day to find out why there was a commotion. The teenager was in the Std IX when the attack completely damaged her eyesight and changed the lives forever. She was taken to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, after she developed an infection due to the pellet injuries on her skull, forehead and eye; she has zero vision in both eyes at present. Subsequently the Jammu and Kashmir state government sought the opinion of retina specialist Dr S Natrajan.
Dr Radhika Krishnan from Aditya Jyot said that Insha has ‘No Perception of Light', which meant she was blind in both eyes. “We have already contacted two of the world’s best trauma surgeons before she underwent a surgery here in September,” she said. While most experts had said that the teenager would no gain nothing from surgery, Dr Natrajan made an attempt to treat the internal injuries. The hospital has treated several cases of pellet injuries from Kashmir as there is a long waitlist at the local centres.