Outreach Eye Camps in Ghana

Summary

An outreach eye camp will screen between 200 and 500 patients and restore sight to approximately 20 to 50 people in Ghana through cataract surgery. progress report read updates from the field

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	£65 - Screens 50 people for eye disease preventing debilitating complications in the future
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Available statistics indicate that 200,000 Ghanaians are completely blind while an additional 600,000 are visually impaired. Seventy-five percent of this blindness is avoidable. (Source: Ghana Eye Foundation, December 2005). An outreach eye camp will restore sight to approximately 50 people in the Ashanti region of Ghana. In 2009, the HCP sponsored 22 remote outreach eye camps in Ghana.

Activities

A team from Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana will travel to a remote site, screen patients for cataracts and perform free surgery to those who need it.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £509
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £9,285
Total Funding Goal: £9,794

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Blindness is debilitating, particularly in the developing world. This project will help restore sight to 1, 500 individuals in the Ashanti region of Ghana. With their sight regained, they will return to work and contribute to their families income.

Project Message

"Most people in the U.S who develop cataracts have them quickly removed and replaced with new lenses. In Ghana 750,000 people are waiting for cataract surgery and the majority of them are blind..."
- Dr. Alan Crandall , HCP affiliated Ophthalmologist

Who is Running This Project

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Geoff Tabin,
Director
P.O Box 55
Waterbury,VT 05676
United States
802-522-7630
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Organisation

Himalayan Cataract Project, Inc.
PO Box 55
Waterbury, VT 5676
United States
802-522-9976
http://www.cureblindness.org

Learn more about Himalayan Cataract Project, Inc. and the project team.

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Himalayan Cataract Project: Remote Eye Camps

Latest Update from the Field

Juaboso Outreach February 22 - 27

By Marie A Gakuba - Program Coordinator, Himalayan Cataract Project, March 28, 2012 05:09 PM

Patients waiting for cataract surgery

Last month a team from Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Eye Unit led by Dr. Seth Lartey and Dr. Mike Feilmeier, a visiting ophthalmologist from the University of Nebraska conducted an outreach in Juaboso district of western region. This was the first outreach event in the district.

An advance team of Optometrists joined the local team and toured surrounding the communities to screen patients. Four towns were selected as screening posts. The local radio station including information van was hired to inform inhabitants of the impending program at the selected towns.

In all, a total of three hundred and two (302) people were screened in the four communities namely Sawfi Juaboso, Bodi, Bonsu Nkwanta and Asempa n’aye. A total of 33 people received cataract surgery.

Pre-operative patients

Patients receiving eye drops before surgery

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