Beirut eye doctor describes 'devastating' injuries after blasts
BEIRUT — An eye doctor in Lebanon said he has treated some 40 to 50 people with serious injuries, including some who lost both eyes, after a wave of communication device explosions targeted members of the militant group Hezbollah this week, killing dozens.
BEIRUT — An eye doctor in Lebanon said he has treated some 40 to 50 people with serious injuries, including some who lost both eyes, after a wave of communication device explosions targeted members of the militant group Hezbollah this week, killing dozens.
“We’ve never seen that much cases of patients and casualties that have been losing their eyes because of explosions,” Dr. Elias Warrak told NBC News. “It’s a nightmare.”
Thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah operatives exploded almost simultaneously across the country in an attack this week, killing at least 37 people, including two children, and injuring nearly 3,000. The majority of those injured were civilians, Lebanon’s health minister said Friday.
Dr. Elias Warrak.Ziad Jaber / NBC NewsWarrak said for some patients, he could save one eye, but “unfortunately, some of them, we lost both eyes.”
The doctor said some of the patients he has seen came to him after having been treated by neurosurgeons to remove shrapnel from their brains.
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