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"India accounts for nearly 20 percent of all blind children worldwide," said Dr. Hunter Cherwek, medical director, ORBIS International. "With the sponsorship of Alcon, this Flying Eye Hospital program complements ORBIS' Childhood Blindness Initiative in India, a program that aims to develop 50 pediatric ophthalmology centers across India by 2015, and prepares us to bring the issue of gender and eye care to the forefront of our program in Bangladesh during World Sight Day."
The Flying Eye Hospital program in India focuses on pediatric ophthalmology including glaucoma, cataracts, strabismus (squint) as well as adult cornea, oculoplastics and cataracts -- the leading cause of blindness worldwide. During the course of the program, the ORBIS medical team will transfer critical sight-saving skills to approximately 200 eye care professionals from local hospitals using hands-on surgical training, live surgical demonstrations, lectures and workshops. In addition to sponsoring the India program, Alcon engineers will volunteer their time to host a 3-day workshop for local engineers and other medical technicians on how to properly fix and maintain much needed opthalmic equipment.
"Alcon is proud to contribute our professional industry expertise by helping to train local biomedical engineers, and supporting their critical role in the improvement of ophthalmic care," said Sara Woodward, director of corporate giving, Alcon. "Through ORBIS' skills-exchange program and partnerships with medical facilities worldwide, we are able to contribute to the advancement of ophthalmology in the developing world and help medical professionals and patients in countries such as India and Bangladesh."
Immediately following the India program, the Flying Eye Hospital will travel to Bangladesh for another two-week skills exchange program and to promote World Sight Day, bringing the theme of gender to the forefront of its mission. With Alcon, ORBIS will organize specialized eye camps for women and girls, launch community advocacy programs and promote this important issue through a series of EyeReports (www.ORBIS-EyeReports.org) -- live reports from the field demonstrating the need and the process in which ORBIS delivers its programs.
Learn more about childhood blindness and India: www.westglen.com/online/blindness.pdf
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Contact Perry Athanason perry.athanason@orbis.org 917.319.2126
SOURCE: ORBIS
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