Blind Toddler From India Receives Help From the Proceeds of Eye Ball 2006 in China, the First Charitable Event of its Kind in China; 4-year-old Kajal,

Nashville, TN (PRWeb) November 29, 2006 -- Four-year-old Kajal, living in a shelter in Allahabad, India, was purposely blinded by her step-mother and abandoned at a train station in India in June 2006. Now in the care of the Society of Underprivileged People (SOUP) in India, her caretakers reach out to Dr. Ming Wang, an internationally known eye reconstructive and corneal specialist, chief scientific officer of Shenzhen Sun Hospital in China and director of Wang Vision Institute in US for help for Kajal. On December 2, 2006, Dr. Wang and Shenzhen Sun Hospital will host China's first charity Eye Ball, in conjunction with China's national ballroom dance championship, to raise funds for blind patients such as Kajal.

Trained at Harvard and MIT (magna cum laude) and with a doctorate degree in laser physics, Dr. Wang completed his residency at Wills Eye Hospital and corneal fellowship at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. A former USA FDA Ophthalmic Device Panel member and an active researcher, he published a paper in the world-renowned journal Nature, and holds a US patent for an invention for a new biotechnology to restore sight in the terminally corneal blind patients. Dr. Wang performed the world's first femtosecond laser artificial cornea implantation. He established Wang Foundation for Sight Restoration, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit charitable organization in US that helps severely corneal blind patients undergo new sight restoration surgeries performed by him free of charge. To date, the foundation has attracted patients from over 40 states in the US and from 55 countries worldwide. For the past two years, the foundation has held its annual fund-raising event, the Eye Ball, in Nashville, TN, USA.

Now, Dr. Wang has extended his idea of Eye Ball, to mainland China, a country where people have improved their own lives significantly in the last 10 years with the amazing economic growth and there is a growing interest in giving and helping others. As the chief scientific officer for Shenzhen's Sun Hospital, Dr. Wang returns to China 2-3 times a year to lecture and perform surgeries.

Dr. Wang will entirely waive his fees for medical and surgical care for Kajal. The patient will either be operated at Sun Hospital in China, or at Wang Vision Institute in US, in conjunction with Wang Foundation for Sight Restoration. Dr. Wang will be using femtosecond laser artificial cornea implantation, a technique that he developed to restore sight in terminally corneal blind patients.

The China's first Eye Ball will be a black-tie event, with men in tails and ladies in full ball gowns. Attendees will listen to the stories and testimonials of blind patients such as Kajal, and the foundation and hospital's mission and work. This ballroom dance event will be attended by hundreds of China's best professional ballroom dancers since the Eye Ball is held at the ballroom championship itself. It will feature a ballroom dance demonstration by the reigning world pro-am ballroom finalist in international 10-dance, Dr. Ming Wang.

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