Miracle op reverses blindness'in girl of 3

Docs inject genes into Khadijah's failing eyes

- MARTIN BAGOT

A THREE-YEAR-OLD with a genetic condition that causes blindness is doing well after a pioneering operation to restore her sight.

The UK is the only country performing keyhole eye surgery to inject healthy copies of a gene into sufferers' eyes.

It is being used to reverse blindness in children born with a rare condition which means they can only distinguish between light and dark.

And it has given little Khadijah Chaudhry, born with Leber congenital amaurosis-4, a chance at seeing properly again. The condition affects about one in 40,000 babies and causes cells in the retina to die off by the age of four.

Khadijah's dad, Muhammad Muddassir, said: "Khadijah was just two years old when she was diagnosed.