Himalayan Cataract Project: Remote Eye Camps

Summary

A remote outreach eye camp will screen between 1,000 and 5,000 patients and restore sight to approximately 200 to 800 people in Nepal, Tibet, China, Bhutan or Northern India through cataract surgery. progress report read updates from the field

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	£6 - Provides consumables for cataract surgery
	£12 - Restores sight to 1 individual enabling her to once again become a productive member of the family.
	£63 - Screens 50 people for eye disease preventing debilitating complications in the future.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The World Health Organization estimates that 180 million people suffer from severe visual impairment (legally blind, by U.S. standards). The leading cause of blindness throughout the world is cataracts and 90% of this blindness is found in the developing world. A remote cataract surgery eye camp will restore sight to approximately 300 people in Nepal, Tibet, China, Bhutan or Northern India. Currently the project supports ten remote eye camps per year.

Activities

A team from the Tilganga Eye Centre in Kathmandu, Nepal, will travel to a remote site, screen patients for cataracts and perform free surgery to those who need it. The Tilganga team also works with local medical personnel to provide further training.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £17,064
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £8,389
Total Funding Goal: £25,453

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This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The suffering caused by blindness deeply affects the family of each unfortunate, blinded individual, especially in the Himalayas. With restored sight, many people return to work and to traditional roles in their families and societies.

Project Message

We've always kept the emphasis on teaching. It's now self-sustaining. Lots of people we’ve taught are teaching others, and even some of their students are now teaching as well.
- Geoff Tabin, M.D., Himalayan Cataract Project founder and co-director

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Geoff Tabin,
Director
PO Box 55
Waterbury, VT 05676
United States
802-522-7630
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Project Sponsor

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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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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Nepal and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Nepal, read the Human Development Report on Nepal or the Wikipedia entry for Nepal.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 28, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 29, 2004.

Latest Update from the Field

Cataract Workshop in India provides 501 sight-rest

By Pam Clapp - Project Manager, December 28, 2011 04:48 PM

Post operative patients

For the second time this year, Dr. Govinda Paudel and a team from the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology in Nepal traveled to Jagadguru Kripalu Charity Hospital, Uttar Pradesh (UP), a remote location in India, to manage a cataract workshop in conjunction with local ophthalmologists. A total of 501 cataract surgeries were provided.

HCP has supported work in the UP since 2007, and each year the number of cataract surgeries provided at the outreach workshops has increased. HCP has committed to adding two additional high-volume cataract workshops in 2012 in India due to the great need.

Dr. Paudel performing surgery

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