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Latest Right to Sight trainee empowered to perform thousands more sight restoring surgeries.

by admin|on October 22, 2011 |in Bue |Leave a comment

Dr. Inoti Muriti is the latest surgeon to complete Right to Sight Small Incision Cataract Surgery (SICS) course. He says of his time at Lions Hospital, “I have not seen a centre like this where such quality surgery is performed”.

He talks of his time with Right to Sight ophthalmologist Dr. Vasudev and tells of how much he has learned from and interacted with him during surgery training. “I have learnt a lot listening to the senior ophthalmologist, getting tips on how to save time and how to ensure top quality surgeries.” For him, cataract operations are most fulfilling as he sees his patients smiling immediately after surgery as they begin to see again.

He has returned to his hospital in Eastern Province, Kenya, to exponentially increase his sight restoring surgeries.

Before the SICS course, Dr. Inoti had completed 15 cataract surgeries in 2009 and 20 cataract surgeries in 2010. He now expects to perform 1,000 cataract surgeries per year at the Maua Methodist Hospital, Kenya. A Right to Sight team have travelled back with Dr. Inoti to provide management consultancy, equipment and online connectivity to help him capacity build his own hospital.

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World Sight Day 2011

by admin|on October 22, 2011 |in News |Leave a comment

This year, World Sight Day is October 13th. The day will be marked by organisations and institutions around the world, in many different ways, on or around that date. It is important to remember, on this day in particular, the shocking statistics relating to needless blindness. There are 39 million people blind worldwide and 80% of blindness is avoidable. Right to Sight are working to achieve our goal of eliminating needless blindness in Africa and you can help!

 

With just €20, one cataract operation is done in 10 minutes restoring the gift of sight.

 

With €1000, a surgeon is trained to do thousands of operations every year.

 

With more, Right to Sight will build permanent African training systems, buy surgery equipment, provide permanent patient transport and cure needless blindness.

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Right to Sight Norway

by admin|on October 20, 2011 |in News |Leave a comment

In July, Dr. Trine Jacobsen, Chairperson of Right to Sight Norway, accompanied Right to Sight team members Dr. Rhona Duggan and Dr. Kate Coleman on a visit to hospital partners in Kenya. Dr Jacobsen was introduced to Mr Samson Ndegwa, Chairman of Loresho Hospital Nairobi, and Dr Khan, Chief Ophthalmologist and director, Loresho Hospital.

Lions SightFirst Eye hospital, through Right to Sight management, opened the Gallagher Training Centre for small incision cataract surgery in August 2010. More recently, it received an SLT laser to partake in the Right to Sight African multicenter Glaucoma Trial.

During the visit the team met ophthalmologists from Nigeria and Tanzania who were attending a six week course at the training institute. The team also visited Dr. Dorothy Mutie (in photograph), head ophthalmologist in New Nyanza Hospital in Kisumu, to develop a surgeon training programme under her leadership.

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