Tuesday, September 01, 2009 LONDON: An African woman was almost blinded following her desperate operation to obtain blue eyes. Shenise Farrell, an African woman obsessed with her appearance was forced to have a restorative sight surgery after enduring a horrendous cosmetic operation to obtain European coloured eyes.Despite being warned by opticians in the UK not to go ahead with the dangerous vanity procedure, Farrell who read about the £5,000 operation in Central America on the internet - ignored all professional advice on the matter. She was so determined to have the operation that would mask her dark brown eyes by surgical insertion of fake implants that she used her savings and lied to her family.Speaking to tabloid media, Farrell, said; ‘I’ve already had breast implants abroad in Bulgaria and had been very happy with that, so it didn’t faze me that I would have to go to Panama.After spending almost £2,000 on eye tests alongside air flight and accommodation costs, she travelled to Panama for the operation at a clinic run by Dr Delary Kahn.Less than a fortnight later, surgeons at the Western Eye Hospital in Paddington were forced to remove the implants in order to save her sight after she experienced severely blurred vision effectively rendering her blind. Despite the success of the operation she is now likely to develop cataracts in later life and is at increased risk of glaucoma.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in
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