THIRD INTERNAtIONAL COOPERATION PROJECT WITH INDIA.

Cooperation with Amritapuri Math in the district of Kollam (Kerala).From 1st of January to 10th of February of 2006.

People Treated:1900

Glasses Issued:152 (Short Sight)

Frames Donated:320

Donated Sun Glasses: 220

Surgeries Of Cataracts: 170 Eyes

Optometrists:

Fª Mª Signes Soler

Mª Isabel Signes Soler

Assistants:

Bernd Fischer

Vicente Bequio

Javier Mulet

Pau Bolufer.

All the participating ophthalmologists did it as voluntary work

The intraocular lenses and the medicines were financed by VSF

The project consists of two parts:

•        Carrying out sight revision of the affected population by tsunami to detect the cataracts 

•          donating reading and sun glasses.

Different “eye camps” were done in several areas in the south of India, and the people treated were given the correct glasses when necessary.

Following through out the project Supports Eyes, developed in AIMShospital Cochi (Kerala).

The cataracts operations were done in the ofthalmological operating room of the hospital. All patients had intraocular lens of later camera implanted.The operations were programmed when the operating room was available, operating an average of 12 eyes per day. All the patients with cataracts found in the countryside where we went received the totally free operation