Blind man gifts vision to little girl

China Daily | Updated: 2007-01-16 07:31

He is blind, but he is only in his early 30s. And he had a chance of regaining his eyesight, even if only slightly, as long as he had his corneas.

But that didn't stop Shi Qiqiang from donating his left cornea so that a little girl named Miao Miao could have a healthy pair of eyes.

Miao Miao (right) watches TV at the hospital a day after the cornea transplant on December 29, as donor Shi Qiqiang lies in bed. The eye into which Shi's cornea was implanted is bandaged. Bao Dunyuan

Shi thus didn't only become the first live cornea donor in China, but also inspired Miao Miao's mother, Liao Jun, to donate her corneas after death. And many other residents of Hangzhou in East China's Zhejiang Province have followed her.

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