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World Sight Day 2010
As we count down to Vision 2020…
Thursday 14th is World Sight Day! An international day of awareness to focus attention on the global issue of avoidable blindness and visual impairment.
80% of global blindness is avoidable.
4% of the World’s population are blind or severely visually impaired. That’s four times the population of the UK! It’s truly [...]
Posted in Adult, Blindness, CBM, Cataract, Malawi, Surgery, Vision 2020, World Sight Day, blindness prevention Tagged Cataract, IAPB, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, Mrs Kadzichi, Mrs Samuel, v2020, Vision 2020, WHO, World Health Organization, World Sight Day, WSD, WSD2010 Leave a comment
Nkhoma Eye Hospital Team
It was Strinnar Duncan’s wedding day yesterday. 9am Church, followed by photos around Nkhoma, then a big lunch (chicken and goat); and then lots and lots of dancing (Pelikani-pelikani; the tradition of different groups of guests dancing at different times, throwing money in the air as you go).
Strinnar is 5th from the left, on the [...]
Posted in Cataract, Colleagues, Surgery Tagged Andy Richards, Charles Nalembe, dancing, Dedza, Elias, Ephraim, Esther, football, Leo, Lumbani Banda, Maxwell Nkhoma, Mr Kabuula, pelikani-pelikani, staff, Steve, Strinnar Duncan, Wedding Leave a comment
It’s getting hot
The famous ophthalmologist John Sandford-Smith MBE wrote the book on Eye Disease in Hot Climates, and I can see why he chose the title. These last two weeks it has really started getting hot. And dry and windy.
Jacaranda trees are in full bloom, and signify the start of the hot spell of October, before the [...]
Posted in Adult, Cataract, Outreach, Poverty, blindness prevention, screening Tagged Blantyre, Jacaranda, John Round, John Sandford-Smith, Katrin, Lilongwe, maize, Zomba 2 Comments
Her smile says it all
We visited the villages near Lilongwe (well, around 2 hours drive from Nkhoma) to pick up patients who had been screened by John Kapakasa, our cataract case-finder.
He’s had a busy week on his motorbike, driving around ten villages in the rural district around the capital. The ambulance brought back 12 patients, 10 of whom were [...]
Posted in Blindness, Cataract, Outreach Tagged Isabelle, John Kapakasa, Lilongwe, motorbike, Mr Kambewa, Mrs Kalembo, screening, smiling Leave a comment
Looking towards 2020