Eye Health Week on the radio

Patient Jennie Hurst has told radio listeners how she developed Acanthamoeba keratitis after wearing her contact lenses in a hotel spa (News 24.08.12).

She was interviewed on the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2 during National Eye Health Week last month, and was pictured afterwards with Vine (centre) and contact lens practitioner Keith Tempany (right).

Hurst, who lost vision in her left eye, said: 'The hospital has seen an unprecedented increase in cases this year. There are questions and investigations being undertaken to better understand this worrying trend, which can be so easily avoided.'