Tag Archives: Cataract
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 [...]
Posted in Cataract, MACOHA, screening Also tagged accident, CBM Canada, Christmas, eye trauma, goat, Lilongwe, MACOHA, Malawi Council for the Handicapped, Mr Kambewa, Nkhata Bay, Outreach, planning, power cut, screening, xmas Leave a comment
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 [...]
Posted in Adult, Blindness, CBM, Cataract, Malawi, Surgery, Vision 2020, World Sight Day, blindness prevention Also tagged IAPB, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, Mrs Kadzichi, Mrs Samuel, v2020, Vision 2020, WHO, World Health Organization, World Sight Day, WSD, WSD2010 Leave a comment
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 [...]
Posted in Burn, Cataract, MACOHA, Outreach, Surgery, screening Also tagged ambulance, burns, eyelids, John Sandford-Smith, Kasina, MACOHA, Malawi Council for the Handicapped, operation, rehabilitation, Salima Leave a comment
The youth of today