A woman in China has been left traumatised after her eyeball was sewn to the corner of her eye during a botched cosmetic surgery which left her with blurred vision, hair loss and depression. On August 17, the woman, surnamed Zhang, from Weifang, Shandong province in eastern China, told Sohu Video about the bungled operation. She underwent the double eyelid surgery at the Weifang Kuiwen Lirendu Medical Beauty Clinic in 2021 It cost her about 30,000 yuan (US$4,200).
Zhang explained that during the operation, she felt discomfort in her eyes and later discovered that her left eyeball and the corner of that eye had been stitched together. “In November 2021, I underwent double eyelid surgery because the outer corners of my eyes were uneven. The doctor said he would make some adjustments, but when he was stitching, I felt discomfort in my eyeball,” Zhang said.
“After the stitches were removed, I noticed a threadlike connection between my eyeball and the corner. The surgeon, hospital director Wang, assured me it was nothing serious and offered me another operation to separate them.” However, her condition deteriorated and her eye became inflamed.
The tissues fused again a week later, which severely limited the movement of her left eye and she had persistent blurred vision. Zhang now has to rely on eye drops and can only move her eye by turning her head. She tried to negotiate with the clinic to pay for corrective surgery at a larger hospital in Shanghai, but the clinic insist.