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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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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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