City doc performs corneal transplant surgeries

Hyderabad: Dr Somasheila Murthy, Head of Cornea Services at L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), India, is visiting the Liberia Eye Centre at John F Kennedy Memorial Medical Center in Monrovia, Liberia and is going to performing corneal transplant surgeries, for which the corneas are being provided by SightLife, Seattle, USA - an international organisation involved in procuring and providing corneas worldwide.  

Since the inauguration of the Liberia Eye Centre by the former President of Liberia, Dr Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in July 2017, which was facilitated by LVPEI, senior doctors from the institute including cornea, glaucoma, retina and oculoplasty specialists have been travelling to the centre on a periodic basis to treat complicated cases.