If all goes well in the next two months, teamwork by surgeons from two civic-run hospitals in the city will make history in the country for conducting a corneal neurotization surgery using sural nerve grafts on the youngest patient ever — a two-year-old child. The child suffers from a rare case of congenital Goldenhar syndrome since birth, which causes a reduced sensation in his right eye. Due to this, the child faces non-healing corneal ulcers and corneal opacity.

Moreover, this supra major surgical procedure was conducted for the first time in a civic-run hospital, by a team of experts from BYL Nair and Dr R N Cooper hospitals.  The surgery has been conducted almost free of cost for Jogeshwari, East, couple Nisha, 37, and Vijay Sawant, 42, an auto driver.