{"id":13407,"date":"2018-12-11T20:24:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T14:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=13407"},"modified":"2018-12-11T20:24:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T14:54:18","slug":"19-month-old-pellet-victim-hiba-to-undergo-2nd-surgery-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=13407","title":{"rendered":"19-month old pellet victim Hiba to undergo 2nd surgery tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parents hope for miracle<\/strong><\/i><\/h3>\n

Srinagar:<\/strong><\/i> On Monday, parents of Hiba Jan, the 19-month old girl whose right eye was perforated by a pellet fired by government forces, were anxious. Hiba is scheduled to undergo second surgery in the injured eye at SMHS Hospital on Wednesday.<\/i>
\n\u201cWe have been praying and hoping that the surgery is a success. These are very difficult time for us,\u201d Hiba\u2019s father Nisar Ahmad Bhat told the Greater Kashmir.<\/i><\/p>\n

Determined not to miss the scheduled surgery of his daughter, Bhat said they were planning to leave for the hospital early morning on Tuesday. \u201cWe have made all arrangements. We will leave early morning. If there is some problem with transport, we will take an ambulance,\u201d said Bhat of Kaprin village in Shopian.<\/i>
\nA pellet fired by the government forces is lodged in the globe of the eye of Hiba, her X-ray has revealed. \u201cWhen we open the eye, then only can we actually comment on how much vision Hiba will be able to regain,\u201d said a surgeon in the ophthalmology department at the hospital. \u201cWe will do our best and let us hope things turn out good for the child.\u201d<\/i>
\nLike the surgeon, Hiba\u2019s parents too have hinged their hopes on the surgery. \u201cInsha Allah, her vision will improve,\u201d Bhat said.<\/i>
\nAnother senior doctor at the hospital said the little Hiba has suffered \u201csevere damage\u201d in her eye, a bitter fact Bhat family is aware of. During his stay in the hospital, after Hiba was admitted there on November 25, Bhat had come across number of people injured by pellets in past who have been underwent repeated surgeries, but have seen little improvement in their vision.<\/i>
\nBhat has his fingers crossed. \u201cMay God help all those people to see as well, along with my daughter,\u201d Bhat sighed. \u201cShe (Hiba) is a little baby. She doesn\u2019t even understand what has happened,\u201d he said, his voice choking.<\/i>
\nDuring a previous check-up, doctors had found that Hiba\u2019s eye was \u201cnot reacting much to light\u201d. Doctors had said that the child had suffered vitreous hemorrhage, a condition where blood leaks into the clear fluid (vitreous humor) that fills the eyeball, making it murky and causing vision loss.<\/i>
\nAt home, Hiba\u2019s brother Shahadat has been making the most of his time with his little sister. \u201cHe plays with her from morning till evening now,\u201d Marsala Jan, mother of Hiba said. \u201cThe entire family is devastated but we want to smile in front of Hiba so that she smiles too,\u201d she said.<\/i>
\nThe family was paid a compensation of Rs 1 lakh by State government. Hiba was injured \u201cinside her home\u201d in Kaprin Shopian when government forces fired pellet shot guns on people following a gun-fight in a nearby village. An inquiry was also ordered to \u201cfix responsibility\u201d.<\/i>
\nBhat said he had taken off from work again to accompany his daughter to hospital. Working as a labourer, Bhat had joined back to work a day after his daughter was discharged from hospital. \u201cWe are poor people. We cannot afford to sit at home,\u201d he said.<\/i>
\nHe said he needed his earnings to run his family and the money government paid will be consumed for treatment of the child. \u201cAn ambulance to Srinagar costs Rs 1100, then there are medicines too. I would not accept any compromise in her treatment because of our poverty,\u201d he said.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Parents hope for miracle Srinagar: On Monday, parents of Hiba Jan, the 19-month old girl whose right eye was perforated by a pellet fired by government forces, were anxious. Hiba is scheduled to undergo second surgery in the injured eye at SMHS Hospital on Wednesday. \u201cWe have been praying and hoping that the surgery is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}