Preventable blindness: Kisumu County embarks on free cataract surgery with only two doctors for 1.3 million people
Findings from previous medical camps in the area point to a heavy local burden. In one outreach in Kombura, Nyando Sub-county, about one in three people screened were diagnosed with cataracts.
How desire to attend her grandchildren’s weddings drove 75-year-old granny to medical camp that restored her and others’ eyesight
Ayanae Apukae, a 75-year-old grandmother, arrived at the Lokori Eye Medical Camp totally blind in one eye and partially in the other, walking behind her granddaughter, who was leading her. She was filled with mixed emotions – fear and hope. Fear because the myth in her village is that surgery...
