New Delhi, Apr 4: The acid attack victim Isha Jahan will get free treatment at Delhi's Gangaram Hospital for her eye injuries after miscreants sprayed acid on her face in Shamli near UP's Muzaffarnagar town.
Isha Jahan is undergoing treatment in the hospital, after she was sprayed with acid on Tuesday by three youths on a bike.
The four sisters, Qamar Jahan, 24, Ayesha, 22, Isha, 21, and Sonam, 19, were teachers at Hindu Kanya Inter College here and were in invigilator duty during the board exams, during which they had objected to copying by some students.
The four sisters were returning from college on Tuesday, when three youths on a motorbike sprayed acid from a ‘pichkari(spray gun used during Holi) on all four of them.
While the condition of the other three is better, Isha is battling for her eye in Gangaram Hospital.
The 23-year-old victim was brought to Ganga Ram Hospital with severe burns on the chest, face and neck.
The girls' mother Noor Jehan had nine daughters, while their father had passed away several years ago. Out of them four of the daughters are married, while the four unmarried daughters were teaching in college to sustain the family. They live in Nayi Basti mohalla of Shamli.
Delh's Gangaram Hospital will provide free treatment to Isha who has suffered severe burn injuries in the acid attack. Isha was shifted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on April 2 night after she suffered severe injuries in her eyes.
In a statement released today, the hospital said, it will “waive off her full treatment cost incurred during her stay at the hospital” considering that the victim's family is poor.
The hospital would keep her in observation for a week or so before taking a decision on her discharge, it said. “Our first priority is to restore her vision and try to
bring her back to the main frame of the society,” Dr DS Rana of the hospital said.
Explaining the current condition of the victim, Dr A K Grover, Chairman of Department of Opthalmology, said, “When the girl was brought to us she had a severe injury in her eyes...We hope to restore her left eye's vision in due course of time. Right eye is essentially normal.”
Dr Mahesh Mangal, Chairman, Department of Plastic Surgery said that the patient was responding well to the treatment and doctors were accessing the depth of the wounds on the face, neck and chest.
