Tag Archives: MACOHA
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, Cataract, eyelids, John Sandford-Smith, Kasina, Malawi Council for the Handicapped, operation, rehabilitation, Salima Leave a comment
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 [...]
Posted in Adult, Blindness, Cataract, Malawi, Nick Metcalfe, Outreach, Surgery, Vision 2020 Also tagged accident, death, eye trauma, Jubele Efuloni, Kambewa, lakeshore, Machinga, Malu, Mangotchi, Salima, Steve Leave a comment
Back to basics