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Field Eye Screenings
The Foundation’s field eye screening team regularly travels to remote areas of Bali to hold mass village eye screenings. At these sessions, up to 700 people can be screened for eye problems in a day. Those with minor eye infections are treated, visual acuity is tested and remedial glasses issued (usually 70%-80% of those tested). Patients who are blind with cataracts are referred to the mobile clinic or eye clinic for surgery.
The team also goes into primary schools in a bid to catch eye problems early and to prevent them becoming something that is both costly and tragic. In one day, up to 400 students can be checked by the team which issues spectacles to students who require them, free of charge.
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as The John Fawcett Foundation (A1008300Y, ABN 47 522 094 089). 31 Oakleigh Road, Darlington, Western Australia 6070 Tel/Fax: +61 8 9299 6762. Incorporated in Indonesia as Yayasan Kemanusiaan Indonesia (Registration No. 1/3 January 2002) Jl. Pengembak 16, Blanjong, Sanur, Bali Tel: +62 361 270812; Fax: +62 361 287707 E-mail: yki@indo.net.id |