Sundeep Hunjan was looking forward to her impending wedding when an assailant threw acid through her car window and destroyed her face and her world.
LONDON: A young Sikh woman has finally got a new face after two years of reconstructive surgery and her doctors have hailed her as “an inspiration to us all.”
Sundeep Hunjan was living in Nairobi, Kenya two years ago, looking forward to her impending wedding when an unknown assailant threw acid through her car window and destroyed her face and her world.
She was so badly injured that she only had four millimetres of skin left around her eyes so she couldn’t even blink or close her eyes.
“It just felt like I had something hot on my face and I couldn’t feel anything,” recalls Sundeep of the incident when it happened. She used to work as a logistics officer for Toyota East Africa in Nairobi and was going home from work with her father.
After ten painful operations at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead in Sussex, Sundeep, 25, has made a full recovery and undergone her final consultation with her doctors. Surgeons have given her new eyelids, rebuilt her nose, her neck and her scalp.
The young woman was brought to England after her tragic accident by her uncle who lived in West Sussex. She was admitted to McIndoe Surgical Centre and while her treatment was given free of charge, her aftercare was expensive at £50,000 so her family lodged a public appeal for financial help.
Sundeep had as many operations in six months as severe burn patients have in two years.
Piece by piece the doctors worked over a period of two years and successfully rebuilt her face. Her doctors said Sundeep’s case was one of the worst cases they had ever seen and were amazed by her speedy recovery, and put it down to her bravery.
“I do appreciate it and I thank God that I have come this far with everyone’s help,” said Sundeep. She married her long-term fiance, Amritpal Singh Rupra two months ago.
“It comes to a point where you say ‘life has to go on’ and I’m happy,” she told ITV news. “I’m so happy now that we’re married and life will go on so we have much more to look forward to,” added Sundeep.
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