Bali Mobile Eye Clinics

Blind people are too frightened to leave their villages and go to a city hospital. A mobile eye clinic takes cataract surgery to the blind. This is the key to its success.

The project's "hunting" team goes to the village ahead of the mobile clinic, screening and selecting people for surgery. Thousands of people are screened and treated for minor eye problems as part of the team’s work. Up to 15 operations can be performed in the mobile clinic in a day. Each operation takes about 20 minutes and costs the Foundation approximately A$60.

Balinese ophthalmologist, Dr Sekar,
and the North Bali Mobile Eye Clinic Team

(updated to end August 2008)

As with all the Foundation's programs, all operations and treatment in the mobile eye clinics are offered free of charge to people in the lower socio-economic group.

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