Whose sight matters? How gender shapes access to eye care in India

“I remember a patient, having a patient, who was a little girl with retinoblastoma,” says said Dr Rohit Khanna, a community ophthalmologist and network director from L.

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Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad. “We told the family that the child patient required surgery and that the eyeball would will have to be removed for her to survive.

We were immediately met with resistance.

The father asked, what was of the child said, then what is the point of her living if she was going to be disfigured.

They would not be able to get her married later.” We will not be able to get her married later.” Retinoblastoma is a rare, fast-growing tumour of the eye and is often seen in early childhood.

It is a type of cancer, and can lead to death if not treated. would lead to death if not treated immediately.