Just back from a week in April on another six monthly trip to Sumba as part of the Foresight Sumba Eye Program. This was a participatory important week, in which the eye registrar from the Udayana University (Dr Jelly) was already using the eye clinic set up by funding from the Rotary Club of Balwyn. It was our chance to check out how the clinic was functioning. Also, the 4 optometrists were involved in one on one training with our eyecare nurses, some of whom are employed by the Sumba Foundation. The new theatres at the Waikabubak Hospital were impressive and we were allowed the use one of the four theatres for the week of surgery where the Dr Jelly, Dr Saphira (from Caritas) and Dr Cho (consultant from Udayana University) operated on mainly cataracts.
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