Tag: cataract
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Segula Meso – open your eyes
Zambia, Africa Embracing the World, Zambia, in collaboration with Vision Without Borders, organized Cataract Surgeries for 216 patients at Petauke, an Eastern Province in the country, in the last week of August 2017. The operations and the hospital care were given totally free to the patients. The volunteers also ensured that the patients were picked…
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Free cataract surgeries in Kenya
Under the initiative of Embracing The World, one week of cataract surgery was held in Vihiga County, Kenya. The team attended total number of 200 cases. Most of them cataract surgeries, some capsulorexis, extrabismus, and one quist. Three ophthalmologists, two nurses, and an optometrist came from Spain to help the operation. All the patients operated…
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Cataract surgery in Kenya
From Saturday 25th May to 2nd June, 208 cataract surgeries were performed in Thika hospital on the outskirts of Nairobi for poor people. The project was gestated, as a direct request from Amma and it was MA Center Kenya, who invited a team of Spanish doctors to do the surgeries. Nagesh Katuri, representing the MA…