Jaiveer Agarwal, renowned ophthalmologist and founder of Dr. Agarwal’s Group of Eye Hospitals, died here on Sunday. He was 79.

While he kept good health right through, the death of his doctor wife of 50 years, Tahira Agarwal, in April this year affected him badly, his family members said. Both his corneas were removed on Monday morning for being used on two adults with trauma-induced vision loss. His son Amar Agarwal removed the corneas and transplanted one on a 20-year-old youth. The other was implanted on a 55-year-old woman by Atiya Agarwal, his daughter-in-law. It was fitting that a man whose greatest passion was eradication of blindness could enable, even in his death, two persons to see. (Lees meer...)

Bron: Hindu.com - 17/11/2009