Blue Fin Vision® Featured: MyLondon January 2026

“For years, I reassured patients that sudden eye conditions could strike anyone – until I became one of them.” That’s the message from a London eye surgeon, who has spent his career preserving others’ sight – before being diagnosed with an inflammatory eye condition and cataracts, fearing blindness.

Mfazo Hove, a consultant ophthalmologist based in London, found out he had acute anterior uveitis, inflammation inside part of the eye, on his birthday on January 9 2019 after experiencing excruciating pain in his eye and “unbearable” sensitivity to light.

The 48-year-old father-of-two said he had told “countless patients over the years that it can happen to anyone” – and then it happened to him, leaving him “devastated”. Mfazo’s job as an eye surgeon relied on him having flawless vision, and it was imperative that he spent his days working with precision and control, so he feared he would lose his career and income if his sight deteriorated.”