Hisar: A government health university here has successfully performed cataract surgery on a monkey who was admitted to hospital after suffering burns due to electric shock.

According to Hisar's Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (LUVAS), this was the first cataract surgery on a monkey in Haryana.

R N Chaudhary, head of the department of veterinary surgery and radiology at LUVAS, said the monkey, which was brought to the campus by Munish, an animal lover from Hansi, had suffered burns due to electric shock.

Initially it was unable to walk. But after several days of care and treatment, when the monkey started walking, doctors found that the monkey was unable to see, Choudhary said in an official release.

He told that after this the monkey was brought to the surgery department of Luwas for treatment.

After examination at the animal eye unit of the university, Dr. Priyanka Dugga found that the monkey had developed white cataracts in both the eyes.

He said, the glass of one eye was also damaged, so an operation was done on the other eye, after the surgery the monkey could see.

Cataract is a common eye disease in which the transparency of the lens is completely or partially destroyed.