THE eyesight of the six-year-old son of a Hong Kong man facing the gallows in Singapore can never be restored, despite pledges of pay medical costs.
The boy was yesterday examined by eye expert Dr Dennis Lam Shun-chiu at the Prince of Wales Hospital, who concluded that it would be impossible to restore his vision.
Medical experts will now concentrate on how to improve the boy's sense of touching and hearing.
Two South China Morning Post readers earlier pledged the best medical care and money if overseas treatment was required for the son of Daniel Chan Chi-pun, after reading how Chan had taken heroin to Singapore in the belief that money could bring his son a cure.
The boy was not believed to have been born blind. He received an unsuccessful cornea transplant in one eye five years ago.
Meanwhile, Chan, 38, who was given a two-week reprieve last week, has told his ageing father not to expect a second miracle.