Category Archives: screening
Back to basics
In Nkhoma, I am planning carefully for the next two months as we run up to the end of the year. We will stop working for Christmas, but will be aiming to help as many people as we can for the next two months, and hope to work flat out.
I had a busy day on [...]
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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 [...]
Also posted in Adult, Cataract, Outreach, Poverty, blindness prevention Tagged Blantyre, Jacaranda, John Round, John Sandford-Smith, Katrin, Lilongwe, maize, Zomba 2 Comments
MACOHA referral session from Salima
We’ve had patients coming from near the lakeshore in Salima the whole of last week and this week. A car every day has been coming full with around 15 patients. We’ve been busy.
Malawi Council for the Handicapped (MACOHA) has a team of field workers in their community based rehabilitation programme. They have spent weeks and [...]
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The impact of 10 million, and the power of one
We have just passed the end of June, and the cool and dryness of winter is here. Most of the people in central Malawi have harvested good crops this year, and are free to head to the market, spend time with their families and enjoy this time of prosperity.
In fact this is our busiest time [...]
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Malawi to start Phaco Cataract Operations