{"id":489242,"date":"2025-10-10T20:44:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/489242\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T20:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:44:24","slug":"cornea-transplant-is-a-life-changing-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/489242\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornea transplant is a &#8216;life-changing gift&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dudley Hubbard, a retired GP and cornea transplant recipient, said: &#8220;If it was not for the knowledge, expertise and skills of the team, I would not have achieved the result that I have.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They really pulled out all the stops to improve my sight as much as they could.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sundas Maqsood, NHS consultant ophthalmologist at Maidstone Hospital, said: &#8220;Almost anybody can donate their corneas \u2013 even if you wear glasses, are older or have had cataract surgery \u2013 yet many people simply aren&#8217;t aware corneal donation is possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s more important than ever to raise awareness because I have seen first-hand that this truly is a life-changing gift.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dudley Hubbard, a retired GP and cornea transplant recipient, said: &#8220;If it was not for the knowledge, expertise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-489242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115351825778891835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}