Nkhoma Eye Hospital
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Presentation from Dr Will Dean, Consultant Ophthalmologist from the CBM-supported Nkhoma Eye Hospital in Malawi. More info: www.cbmuk.org.uk
Nkhoma Eye Hospital
- 1. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 Nkhoma Eye Hospital Malawi Malawi CBM-supported eye care programme in Southern Africa
- 2. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 Nkhoma Eye Hospital Malawi Malawi CBM-supported eye care programme in Southern Africa QuickTime and a Cinepak decompressor are needed to see this picture.
- 3. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 Nkhoma Eye Hospital Africa Malawi Nkhoma Christian Mission Hospital Nkhoma Eye Hospital
- 4. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 10 Million Celebration cbm work throughout the world Largest INGO tackling disability 10 million cataract operations in past 100 years
- 5. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 The Scale of Blindness 45 million blind people globally 7 million blind in Africa Malawi has 14 million population 1% are blind 70,000 are blind from cataract 350,000 need cataract operation for blindness or severe visual impairment
- 6. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 Nkhomas Area of Work Central Malawi 4 million population 4 eye surgeons 100,000 people who need cataract surgery Childhood blindness, glaucoma, trachoma Training
- 7. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 Nkhoma Eye Hospital Since 1999, Dr Nick Metcalfe from Sunderland developed the most productive district eye unit with a single eye surgeon, in African history. Dr Nick & the Nkhoma team pioneered high volume high quality cataract surgery in a rural African setting
- 8. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 Nkhoma Eye Hospital Sustainability Malawian Clinical Officer Cataract surgeon Training Malawi Ophthalmologists
- 9. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 Nkhoma Eye Hospital To date, over 30,000 cataract operations performed at Nkhoma.
- 10. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 cbm Support CBM supported Nkhoma for past 34 years
- 11. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 Cataract Surgery In UK NHS, one cataract operation costs 贈1,000 Privately 贈bit more In Nkhoma, one cataract operations costs 贈20 The average annual income in Malawi is 贈250 Surgery costs the patient 贈0
- 12. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 Why does Cataract Surgery in Nkhoma Cost 贈20? Transport & Case-finding
- 13. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 Rural Africa We work in Central Malawi, a very rural area of Africa 85% of population are subsistence farmers living in villages with no electricity, some water, and annual maize crops to feed the family. Some of the poorest of the poorest people of the World 74% live below the international poverty line of $1.25 a day
- 14. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 What do we do? Mobile clinics in villages Screen and see people in churches, clinics, football fields, under a tree
- 15. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 What do we do? Cataract Case Finders Drive on motorbikes in their catchment area villages all week screening for potential patients
- 16. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 贈20 Patients receive: Accommodation 3 meals a day Surgery Medicines Glasses if needed Transport
- 17. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 A Patients Journey In the mobile clinic
- 18. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 A Patients Journey In the hospital
- 19. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 A Patients Journey Back at home with the family
- 20. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 A New Life
- 21. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 A Patients Journey In the mobile clinic
- 22. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 A Patients Journey In the hospital
- 23. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 A Patients Journey Back at home
- 24. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 A New Life
- 25. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 Why do we do this? Because of CBMs support Because people in rural Malawi do not have the means to travel and pay for surgery Because blindness is avoidable Because of the burden of the disability on the person, their family and community Because everyone has a Right to Sight
- 26. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 But why? Humanitarianism Honouring a persons dignity, who does not have a choice
- 27. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 cbm Largest international organisation tackling disability Experience of over 100 years 10 million cataract operations performed Koano kwa tsopano, moano ma tsopano New sight, New Life
- 28. Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 Thank you.. And 10 million times again, Thank You. QuickTime and a Cinepak decompressor are needed to see this picture.
- 29. Thank you..
Editor's Notes
- I am honoured to be here this evening, and thank Dr Bill McAllister for inviting me to come and talk. I thank you all for coming, and for helping us celebrate together this incredible milestone, this evening. My name is Will Dean, and I am an eye surgeon living in rural Malawi for the past 3 years
- On the flight over to Heathrow from Lilongwe, I spent hours trying to imagine how to describe where I live and work, but Im not sure if I can really indulge this. I have the urge right now to hurry up this presentation, as its about this time every evening that the electricity goes out for 3 hours. My mum and dad are here this evening and I am very honoured. My dad sent a text message last Friday warning that the London tube would be on strike when I landed on Monday. Back in Malawi, just a minute before I received my dads text, the chief security guard at my house warned me that I shouldnt stand by the outside tap, as a snake had taken up residence there. The travel to Stratford through London is a constant game of dodging busy commuters, tourists, buses, taxis, and eye contact with anyone. In the village I live in, there is no supermarket or petrol station; and the hour-long trip into town for shopping is a constant game of dodging goats, chickens, cyclists, pedestrians and smoky trucks.
- In Africa there is a proverb about How do you eat an Elephant. A little peace at a time, with help from lots of friends. The population of Greater London, or New York City is blind, in Africa.
- Only 5% of our patients walk into the hospital The other 19 out of 20 we have to go out to the villages and find.
- This operation took just less than 5 minutes. Im showing it here at 5 times speed, so we have just under a minute. It is this easy and simple to do the cataract operation in trained hands. It takes this long, and not too much money to change a persons life forever. To change their familys life forever. And it is thanks to the support of CBM that this is possible thousands of times a year at Nkhoma, and 10 million times throughout the World over the past century. All of us here together, and all who support CBM around the world, are here tonight to celebrate that together, we really really can do more.