A schoolboy who was going blind can now see thanks to life-changing eye surgery.
Mamadou, seven, was born with bilateral cataracts - which would eventually leave him blind.
The schoolboy, from Waterloo, Western Area, Sierra Leone, struggled to walk because he would trip over objects and he couldn't see well enough to read or write.
In the UK, babies born with cataracts would have been operated on at six weeks old.
Mamadou, seven, was born with bilateral cataracts - which would eventually leave him blind.
The schoolboy, from Waterloo, Western Area, Sierra Leone, struggled to walk because he would trip over objects and he couldn't see well enough to read or write.
In the UK, babies born with cataracts would have been operated on at six weeks old.
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00:00So Mamadou has bilateral cataracts, that means that he has a cataract in both eyes.
00:07He could tell that there was a light that was being turned on, but he couldn't even
00:10really tell that a hand was being waved in front of his face.
00:15That means that he's also not able to do other activities that we would just consider
00:19normal like going out to play or walking around without help, those types of things.
00:25He needs help with so many different tasks and things that we take for granted every day.
00:55If left unattended, I would say that he would become blind.
01:06So I'm very happy that we had an opportunity to do surgery.
01:15Being able to witness the patches being removed off his eyes after surgery was such an absolute
01:20blessing and a privilege.
01:22It was so wonderful to suddenly see him looking around and starting to perceive the world
01:28and being able to absorb some of the information of what he was seeing around him.
01:34It was so special and you could just see that it was starting to, like the joy that started
01:38to build up inside him.
01:42Did you see me?
01:44Yes.
01:58Now, he's so safe now.
02:00He's a worker.
02:01He can come and be there.
02:02He's so safe.
02:03The coma is gone now.
02:04So life is different.
02:05But good things are there.
02:11I'm so happy.
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