Topic Reading-Vol.664-2/4/2014

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,

Flying eye hospital helps blind to see.

What could make significant changes to the needy in developing countries isn’t always money. This flying eye hospital, a retired DC-10 aircraft donated by the United Airline, visits places where people with eye diseases need ophthalmological treatment by skilled ophthalmologists and proper equipment. They not only give treatment or surgeries but also provide onboard and real time training to the local ophthalmologists, doctors and medical students during the operations, so that they can ask specific questions.

This eyesight saving project is conducted by ORBIS, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that works in developing countries to prevent blindness and treat estimated 285 million visually impaired people.

Enjoy reading and learning about this eye-opening initiative.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/21/world/africa/scalpel-scissors-flying-eye-hospital/index.html?hpt=hp_c5