Chinese boy’s sight saved after he receives transplant from part of a pig’s eye

Doctors in southern China have successfully transplanted part of a pig’s eye on to a 14-year-old boy to help save his sight, according to a newspaper report.

The cornea transplant was successfully carried out by a medical team from Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported.

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The boy from Jiangxi province in southeast China nearly lost the sight in his right eye after he was injured by a firecracker earlier this year, the newspaper said.

The surgery was carried out late last month and the boy was able to see a week after the procedure, according to the article.

Doctors were quoted as saying that his vision was likely to further improve with more treatment.

The surgery was the first of its kind in southern China, according to the report.