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BHUBANESWAR: Doctors at government-run Capital Hospital performed cataract surgery on a 101-year-old man, a native of Puri district . "It is a milestone in eye-care for the state of Odisha because there is no record of any patient above 100-years-old to undergo cataract surgery. They say he is the oldest patient to have undergone the surgery in Odisha. The cataract was also matured so we could remove it successfully," Meherda added.She said, in case of old-age patients people generally avoid surgery. "In this case the patient is very active and most importantly the retina was normal..