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You
can give a blind person the gift of sight!
Please help us
provide a surgical microscope for cataract removal.
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Sight for the Blind:
Cataracts are a major cause of blindness at Macha. With an
operating microscope for cataract surgery, many of the blind
at Macha will be able to see.
At Left: Dr. Spurrier doing a cataract removal using
a surgical microscope borrowed from Dr. Wiafe.
Below: Patients after cataract removal. In about 10
days their eye patches will be removed and their vision will
be restored.
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One Patients Story: In 2001, a woman in her
60's came to Macha. Her cataracts were so bad that she couldn't
even see the light from a flashlight shining in her eyes.
Dr. Waife had come from Lusaka with an operating microscope
and he and Dr. Spurrier removed the cataract from one of her
eyes. After 10 days, I (Lloyd Williams) took her bandages
off and asked what she could see. She immediately responded
"Makua", which means white person. The whole ward
laughed with her and then shared her tears of joy as she went
on to say, "the sunlight, my daughter, my path."
Please help others like her experience the gift of restored
sight.
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