Boy leaves hospital after gouging attack

A six-year-old Chinese boy whose eyes were gouged out in an attack more than three months ago was discharged from a hospital in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen yesterday where he was successfully fitted with prosthetic eyes.

Guo Bin — nicknamed Binbin — danced to music at a send-off ceremony at the C-MER Dennis Lam Eye Hospital, where he expressed gratitude and happiness.

The prosthetic eyes look and move much like normal eyes, but do not restore vision. Doctors plan to fit Binbin with navigation sensors next summer that would allow him to get around on his own in familiar places.