Liu Minxia

    mllmx@msn.com

    A SHENZHEN hospital will try to save the vision of a 12-year-old boy who was stabbed in both eyes in Northeast China’s Jilin Province.

    The boy, Xiao Shuo, was stabbed by a woman in his neighborhood, identified as Wang, on Sunday morning over a dispute Wang had with Xiao’s parents over a piece of farmland in Bao’an Village, Yushu City in Jilin. Wang later set fire to her house and stayed inside as it burned, killing herself.

    Xiao was stabbed in both eyes, on his chest and stomach. He regained consciousness and found he had lost his vision.

    Doctors at C-MER (Shenzhen) Dennis Lam Eye Hospital saw the report and called the boy’s family, saying the hospital is willing to help and asking for Xiao’s diagnosis.

    Xiao’s case is similar to that of Guo Bin, a 6-year-old boy whose eyes were gouged out in 2013 in Shanxi Province. Guo had been lured into a field by a woman before she attacked him. The incident sparked nationwide outrage.

    Dennis Lam, who established the C-MER (Shenzhen) Dennis Lam Eye Hospital, the first Hong Kong-funded ophthalmic hospital in the Chinese mainland, organized a team to follow Guo’s case after the incident.

    Guo had surgery in the Shenzhen hospital in September 2013. The hospital implanted an artificial eye in his right eye socket and added an eyelid to his left eye. Guo also receives regular psychological guidance and visual rehabilitation training at the hospital.

    When Xiao’s physical condition allows him to fly to Shenzhen, the eye hospital will see whether they can save the vision in his left eye, the hospital said yesterday. The injury in his right eye is irreversible, according to Jilin doctors.