Category Archives: Surgery
Malawi to start Phaco Cataract Operations
So an awesome week, an historic week, and a lot of fun with a few very happy patients!
Nkhoma now has a modern ‘phaco’ cataract surgery service! The first permanent such unit in Malawi. Fantastic.
Although the technique we use for cataract surgery for thousands of operations each year is very very good, and we can perform [...]
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The youth of today
Tikale had a traumatic cataract in his right eye. He was trying to get through some bushes to cross a road, when one snapped back and caught him strongly in the eye. Within a week his vision clouded over, and by the time a month later when he made it to the hospital he was [...]
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 [...]
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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Mary from Mangotchi