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60 percent of patients in IOK have bleak chances to regain eyesight

ISLAMABAD, Oct 15 (APP): Sixty percent of the people, in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK), who suffered eye injuries due to the pelletsfired by Indian forces on protesters during the ongoing mass uprising have very bleak chances to regain eyesight. Dr Tariq Qureshi head of the department of Ophthalmology SMHS Hospital told media men that of the 850 pellets injured admitted in the hospital, eyesight of six of the patients whose eyes were grievously injured with pellets could not be recovered,Kashmir Media Service (KMS) reported. He said that 15 patients had completely lost eyesight in one of their eyes.