GoMap.az reports quoting to Radio Netherlands Worldwide that, an Asian elephant has been given back her sight - and become the first in Europe to be fitted with a contact lens.Win Thida, 44, was injured in a scuffle with a fellow elephant at Amsterdam's Artis Zoo when she was poked in her left eye by a twig.
Dutch vet Anne-Marie Verbruggen was called in after the tourist attraction's star turn had difficulty keeping her eye open and it started to stream.
An examination revealed the cornea had been damaged, sparking fears that without something to protect the eye it would never heal and she could soon end up blind. Her eye was opening and closing easier and now, it is hoped, the protective lens will let the wound heal. Zoo bosses expect to remove the lens in 'a couple of months'.
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