Tangdhar, Sept. 25 -- Along the Line of Control, help has to be carried across mountains and sometimes through the shadow of shelling. Inside an underground operation theatre at Tangdhar, a shelling-prone sector under threat throughout, surgeons of the Armed Forces Medical Services successfully completed 220 sight-restoring surgeries over two days in the 10th Mega Eye Surgical Camp under Operation Drishti, the first mega eye surgical camp of its kind at the LoC.

As per the official release, most were cataract surgeries, along with selective retinal procedures and minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS).

Karnah (Kupwara) is a shelling-prone zone, and during Operation Sindoor it was among the most vulnerable locations on the LoC, absor...