Second campaign of international co-operation in the Mauritanian city of Noaudhibo, in co-operation with the Foundation Jorge Alio of Alicante being the local counterpart the own council of Noaudhibou. From 24th of October to 3rd of November 2007.
People Treated: 3670
Prescribed glasses: 60
Donated glasses: 145
Ofthalmologists:
Dr. Carlos Laria Ochaita.
Dr. Pawel Klonowski.
VSF Optometrists
Carlos Sánchez Seco.
Alicia Alesón Carbonell.
Assistants:
Mª Agustina Asensi.
Paqui Martín Buitrago.
Project Manager and Co-ordinator:
Mª Isabel Signes Soler
OBJECTIVES The project had two main objectives:
1. To distribute the assembled glasses to the children with refractive errors detected on the first expedition .
To carry out a second campaign in schools that were not visited last time.
The objective of this was to identify children who had difficulties in performing school tasks both near and far and prescribe glasses to enable them to perform their visual tasks MethodsWe had two different groups to carry out the project:1. The first, carring out visual accuracy tests on the children of each school.
2. The second, carring out esquiascopias and cliclopléjica tests on the children. They were also in charge of the glasses prescriptions and taking the measurements for the needed glasses The visual accuracy level was set up at 0.6 and we considered that children with levels superior to 0.6 would have no problems following the lessons and performing the tasks.
During the days we were carrying out visual screening various irregularities were detected these were refered these to the ophthalmologists for diagnosis (i.e. syndromes Marfan syndrome, microoftalmos, estrabismos, conjunctivitis exposure, tracomas, corneal ulcers and pterigiums).
The biggest problem was our inability to communicate directly with children, who spoke an Arabic dialect. We found it hard to perform the diagnostics and to explain the guidelines to the patients.
