Category Archives: Blindness
Mary from Mangotchi
Mary is young and had been at school until just over a year ago. Now she is totally blind. The brittle undiagnosed Diabetes had metabolically robbed her of her sight in a matter of months. Her sugar was so high when she came to Nkhoma, we had to spend 2 weeks controlling it even before [...]
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Only eye
Next week we have another Salima session. An extra ambulance of patients from the Lakeshore every day, referred by one of our close partners Malawi Council for the Handicapped, MACOHA. So a busy week ahead screening and helping two hundred or so people from Salima District, around a two hour drive from Nkhoma.
Mr Kambewa, the [...]
Looking towards 2020
There are some fantastic new estimates coming out of the WHO that 39.8 million people are blind worldwide; which is a decrease of just over 5 million (13%) in the past 6 years!
Around 80% of blindness is avoidable (as in treatable or preventable); and 90% of blind people live in low income countries.
We are winning [...]
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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 [...]
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