At Northern Community Eye Hospital, we witness incredible transformations every day, but few are as powerful as the journey from blindness to clear vision. In the first image, an elderly woman sits quietly, her face marked by years of struggling with blurred vision caused by cataracts. For a long
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In November of 2022, Dr John Sandford-Smith spent 3 weeks in Tamale, in NCEH. This was his 4th time there. He took part in patient care and in surgeries but his main contribution was to train our staff. Thanks a million Dr John! You are an inspiration to all
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As part of activities to mark this year’s World Sight Day, The Northern Community Eye Hospital in collaboration with Dubai Charity Foundation, organized a free cataract camp at the premises of Northern Community Eye Hospital in Tamale. This program which took place from 7th to 10th October, 2022 saw
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10 year old boy with interesting-looking cataracts before and after cataract surgery. He stopped schooling 3 years ago but vision has now greatly improved so he’s back to school again.
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Right to Sight and Health was one of the sponsors of a one week long cataract surgery mission in Belize Lead by Dr John Ghobrial, ophthalmologist. The mission took place from, 30th May to 3rd June 2022. 20 phacoemulsification cataract surgeries were performed. [ubergrid id=4199]
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11 month old baby Ibrahim had very droopy eyelids ( called Ptosis )since birth and because of this he developed lazy eyes with poor vision in both eyes. He also had to lift chin constantly to be able to see. He underwent a successful Ptosis surgery and now his
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15 February 2017. We just had 8 children come from the blind school for follow-up, so we paid for their trip and food. We operated on them 2 years ago (for congenital cataract) and 2 already left the blind-school! One more could also leave, and all of them improved
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March 27-29 2015 Three weeks after the last 3 children were operated on, we decided to go to Wa to see them. I took my engineer friend, Mashood, who is from a village close to Wa. He could help with the exams and also with translation, as he speaks
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March 5 2015 On Wednesday, the three children operated on last week returned for follow-up from Wa. All three claimed to see better, be “very happy” and also function better according to the teachers. One has to be careful though with what patients and family members say about improvement:
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