Cure Blindness in 1000 Poor Cambodians

THE BLINDNESS FOUNDATION

With your kind help,.we were able to succesfully complete our November-December 2023 Eye Mission to Cambodia for the poor. Thank you.

 Over 500 lens implants were donated and arrived safely for implantation into cataract patients at two major Phnom Penh Eye Hospital departments, for their cataract outreach programs, for rural and urban poor, who were not charged for the lens implants, needed with their cataract surgeries.

In addition, medical supplies needed for the 500 patients eye surgeries were donated  from a major US manufacturers to aid in these surgical procedures.

Eye Doctors ,including Faculty and Ophthalmology Residents were trained in new surgical techniques by Dr. Lyon to develop skill set transfers to the Cambodian medical system.

Importantly , a new Fellowship program has been developed for Cambodian Ophthalmologists. These out of country Fellowships , ranging from three to twelve months. allow certified Cambodian Eye Doctors to place in Eye Departments around the world to obtain further training is sub-specialty areas of Ophthalmology , that are not currently available in Cambodia.

 With better educated Ophthalmologists, the Cambodian people's eye care will improve substantially.

A young CambodIan girl's traumatic cataract was removed and replaced with one of our donated lens implants, as her happy smile shows as she wais in the enclosed photograph below.

Thank you all for your kind support 

 DR CHRIS LYON 

 Director,

 THE BLINDNESS FOUNDATION

Cambodian Eye Doctors and Cataract Outreach program is ON for this November 20  2023 !

Yes !      THE  BLINDNESS  FOUNDATION is again at work.

        We have receive our annual invitation to help with the Cataract Outreach programs in Cambodia.

. The two locations are the Children's Hospital & Eye Doctors and the Ophthalmology Residency program based in the Soviet Friendship Hospital with the University of Health Sciences.

  Dr Lyon was appointed Visiting Associate Professor of Ophthalmology to UHS , many years ago and has lectured annualy there to help train the young Ophthalmology Residents and assist their Cataract Outreach program for the poor.

  This follows on from our September program of THE BLINDNESS FOUNDATION  in another developing nation- Laos , sandwiched between China, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. Medical supplies were shipped ,at some expense, via Fed-EX  as the USPS does not service Laos any more.These helped treat people blind with cataracts , helping them see agin and become productive members of their poor, rural villages . Laotian Eye Residents and mature Eye Doctors in the field  were trained in the latest surgical techniques by Dr.. Lyon

So, for this Cambodian Eye Mission we are soliciting donations to help cover Mission costs , particularly the hsipping of lens implants to the two hospitals along with other needed medical supplies. Your kind donations help make this happen. You help cure blindness with your generosity-

Thank you

DR CHRISTOPHER LYON

Fouunder & Director

 THE BLINDNESS FOUNDATION