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his was the best way to go. “I got a call saying that here were some doctors here who could do the surgery for ee. So I was coming for that t GPHC because (the person) nsisted that I fly down immeiately. So I said okay and would go to Balwant Singh Hospital to get my papers,” he xplained. The following day, the oung man said he booked a ight and travelled to the city nd visited the Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital to uplift his medical records. However, while there he was told that such documents could not be released to him until the following day and so he agreed to return the next day.

However, that very night Duncan said he received a phone call from Dr. Singh of Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital asking him to check his email, as she had sent correspond­ence saying that an anonymous donor had paid off the balance on the bill for his surgery, a sum of $396,000.

“I got a call from the CEO of the hospital who advised me to check my email I was really shocked. It’s not something I was expecting…I have never experience­d someone who was willing to do that for me. But to be honest I would never forget that act of kindness…I want to be like that; however small or however big, I want to help someone in the future like this person helped me,” Duncan shared.

Asked if he had made any attempts to seek treatment at the GPHC originally, Duncan said, “I was referred to Balwant Singh by my doctor at the Da Silva House of Optics…they told me something was wrong with my eyes and they sent me there. Me being a stranger here, did not really know where to go and they referred me to Balwant Singh and the doctor there discovered that I had this condition.”

Discomfort

Expounding a bit on the discomfort caused as a result of the condition, the young man said he suffers extreme dryness and sensitivit­y to light which sometimes impairs his ability to read, a much loved pastime.

“It was stressing me out

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