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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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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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The big Indaba

So I started the day as normal 5am, but this time with no strange animals or creatures in the house.  Even my dog Ellie had gone on her weekly walkabout for a day or maybe two.  A nice coffee, a beautiful sunrise and some paperwork and emails. At 8am we had the big staff meeting/indaba to [...]
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Screening at the lakeshore

And so we start the year.. We have done our first few cataract operations.  I also saw a 12 year old boy who had a penetrating  pen injury to his eye.  Managed to sort it out in theatre. Steve and Kambewa are driving 200 miles to Mangotchi and Machinga, near the lakeshore, tomorrow to meet the district [...]
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