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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ella Pickover and Rebecca Thomas

UNBELIEVABLE: Artificial cornea makes 91 year old an nhs first for sight saving surgery - Caught on Camera

Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

A 91-year-old man has made history by becoming the first NHS patient in England to receive an artificial cornea.

Cecil Farley faced a year-long wait for sight-saving surgery after a human cornea transplant failed, but his surgeon offered him the chance to skip the queue by using an artificial one.

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