The two blind women, on whom thecornea of Captain Lakshmi Sehgal was transplanted last week,have got back their vision.
The surgery on 15-year-old Babli and Rampyari (55) wassuccessful and they would soon be discharged from thehospital, said Dr Mahmood Rahmani, who conducted the surgery.
Both transplants were done on July 25 and the bandageswere removed yesterday.
Rampyari and Babli had no visibility in one eye and verypoor visibility in the second, and both had waited for twoyears for cornea, said Rehmani, who removed and transplantedthe cornea.
"After getting Captain Sehgal's cornea, I called upBabli's father Guddu who hails from Hardoi and is from afinancially weak background and asked him to come to Kanpurfor the transplant," Rehmani said.
Rampyari, the second person to benefit, belongs to Hatiyaarea of Kanpur.
Captain Sehgal had expressed wish to donate her eyesafter her death.