Mr Ahmad Dabbagh 2020-12-21 Person 5 5 0

Mr Dabbagh and his team performed my cataract operations in both December 2019 and November 2020 - the second having been delayed due to the global Covid outbreak this year. On both occasions the care and aftercare given by Mr Dabbagh and his team (with Elizabeth De Smit as his registrar on the first occasion and, I think, Heidi on the second) was first class. I was very short-sighted before my operations (my right eye was -22 at the time of my first operation and I also have a stigmatism) and I'm aware from what Mr Dabbagh told me after my first op, that I had presented them with 'a bit of a challenge' on the day. As the last of 7 patients to be operated on, I was also conscious that my surgery was taking a little longer that the patients who had gone before me that morning. Mr Dabbagh however kept me totally at ease during the whole process, clearly explaining what was going on at each stage of the fitting of my lens. And, now that I have also had cataract surgery on my other eye and my sight is totally balanced, I have to say that my overall long-distance vision is a-maz-ing! As someone who has needed glasses since his teens I am, several weeks on, still marvelling at how well I can now see unaided by glasses for long-distance vision. I would like to say a sincere and grateful thanks to Mr Dabbagh and his team for their care, and would wish to include within this the full teams involved in the operating unit on the day of both my operations and indeed, all the other nurses in the Kingston Hospital Eye Unit who carried out various test on my eyes in and around my operations. I would certainly have no hesitation in highly recommending Mr Dabbagh or the Kingston Hospital Eye Unit to any patients needing cataract surgery.