Rain preserves eye lost in bear attack
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Jaipur: It is a case that may as well be a medical miracle. After a bear attack that was almost fatal for a woman in Rajasthan, one of her eyes was gouged out and later recovered from a forest after 14 hours in a “preserved” condition.
Doctors say the wild animal removed the victim’s eye with the precision of a skilled doctor. They added that the eye may be donated for a transplant later.
The incident occurred on Saturday when the victim Santosh Rajput, 50, along with her grandson was returning from a temple in forest area near Mount Abu. They encountered a bear with its cubs.
It attacked Santosh while the 8-year-old grandson ran away and sounded an alarm. Hearing his screams, people were quick to reach at the site and pushed the animal back to the forest. The eye was found at the site when Santosh’s son Kishore visited the site to recover his mother’s lost cellphone. He found the eye on a tree branch and he took it with him to the hospital in a plastic cover.
“Santosh’s nerves and tissues had been damaged to such an extent that the eye cannot be restored with her, but the cornea in the recovered eye is safe and can be used in restoring vision of someone else,” said Dr Sudhir Singh an eye specialist where Santosh is being treated.
“It happened like a miracle, the eye was found on a tree branch like someone had cautiously put it there. In the 14-hours that the eye was there, the site of incident reported mild showers which worked like distilled water to protect the organ,” Dr Singh said.
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