The helper in Mindoro who went partially blind after allegedly struggling abuse by the hands of her employer is unlikely to regain her imaginative and prescient, based on an ophthalmologist.
At the Senate justice and human rights committee listening to on the abuse suffered by Elvie Vergara on Tuesday, Dra. Airene Oloroso of Batangas Medical Center advised senators that the sufferer’s left eye had already shrunk and is not practical.
Oloroso performed an eye fixed examination on Vergara on August 15.
“Nag-shrink na ‘yung mata. Non-functional na. Non-seeing eye na po talaga…May mga other causes din po but it could also be trauma,” the physician mentioned.
“Pwedeng accident. Pwedeng nabutas siya previously tapos di na na-repair tapos kusa na lang siya nag-shrink,” she mentioned.
As for the sufferer’s proper eye, Oloroso mentioned it was underneath “poor prognosis” and there’s a “slight chance” for restoration. She additionally mentioned Vergara has a swollen cornea on her proper eye.
“Initial plan namin for the patient is first, remove the cataract. It’s a stage procedure we will re-evaluate after the surgery kung kakayanin ng mata niya. We cannot [do] a one sitting na surgery kasi ang problem niya pati cornea niya may problema,” she mentioned.
“Pati retina niya may problema. Baka lalo siyang mag-shrink ‘yung right eye nya. We have to wait for sometime kung kakayanin niya ‘yung first surgery which is the removal of the cataract,” the physician mentioned.
“As of now, ang right niya po ay light reception na lang. Ilaw na lang po talaga. Halos wala na rin po siyang makita,” she added.
For their half, Senators Jinggoy Estrada, Francis Tolentino, and Raffy Tulfo promised to cowl the medical bills for Vergara’s eye operation on the Philippine General Hospital in Manila.
“Sasagutin na namin ni Senator Raffy at Senator Tolentino ‘yung pagpapagamot ninyo…Maibalik lang ang inyong paningin. Wala na kayong iintindihin sa gastos basta ipapa-operahan,” Estrada mentioned.
The sufferer thanked the legislators, saying: “Kahit saan basta mapagaling ang mata ko. Gusto ko lang po makakita.”
The Senate panel earlier issued a subpoena on Vergara’s employers after the 44-year-old sufferer went blind and bought quite a few scars throughout her physique because of alleged abuse. She recalled her traumatic experiences in an episode of “Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho.”
Vergara and her household have filed circumstances of significant unlawful detention, trafficking, and critical bodily accidents towards her employers.—Sundy Locus/AOL, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
