Adult cataract operation
Creating an awareness of glaucoma by displaying posters in surgeries and eye clinics helps to convey the importantance of regular eye screening
£25
With glaucoma, once vision is lost, it cannot be restored. Glaucoma is more common among older people.
It’s estimated that 4.5 million people are blind due to glaucoma. About 60.5 million people will have glaucoma by the year 2010. Given the ageing of the world’s population, this number may increase to almost 80 million by 2020.
Your gift will help us in the prevention and treatment of glaucoma:
- Eye screening camps for glaucoma
- Counselling for patients who need treatment
- Raising awareness about glaucoma
- Eye drops and Trabeculectomy surgery
Eye care:
Your gift will contribute to projects which restore sight and prevent sight loss.
See your gift in action
Ahmadu has already lost his sight in his left eye due to glaucoma and he has now developed a build up of pressure in his right eye. His treatment will release the fluids and pressure on his eye so that he doesn’t lose the vision in that eye as well.
Ahmadu is a tailor and unless his right eye is saved he will no longer be able to work, he has nine children and a wife to support.
Ahmadu is in the hospital along with other patients who are being treated for cataracts. Unlike the cataract patients in the same ward, Ahmadu’s sight won’t return and there will be no difference in his sight, his surgery will only stop any further damage. Therefore, counseling and managing the expectations of Glaucoma patients is a very important part of the treatment.