A good hard cry

RP Centre logoA 13-year-old girl said to be shedding tears of stone is being treated at the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences here.

Savitri Kumari, hailing from Hazaribagh in Jharkhand, was examined by doctors at the Rajendra Prasad Centre for Opthalmic Sciences (RP Centre) at the AIIMS, who has been suffering from the unusual ailment for the past two years.

“We have examined her and called her for a detailed examination by a team of experts tomorrow,” RP Centre Medical Superintendent Shakti Kumar Gupta said.

He said the doctors at the AIIMS were curious to check this strange ailment.

So says an August 30, 2006 Times of India report.

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