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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 [...]
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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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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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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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