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Category Archives: Trauma

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 [...]
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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 [...]
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