Adult cataract operation
"I want to buy my grandson a gift with the extra money I’ll now be able to earn working full days."Madhuben Solanki, India
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Plastic eye shields are used to protect the eye after surgery or treatment. They are vital for keeping the eye clean and ventilated during the healing process.
This gift will help protect 100 eyes like Madhuben Solanki from Gujarat in India. After cataract surgery a plastic shield kept her eye protected and aided her recovery.
Madhuben is very happy that she has has her operation as she previously found it hard to work with her strained vision.
This gift could provide 100 plastic eye shields for vital after surgery care. Thank you.
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Your gift will contribute to projects which restore sight and prevent sight loss.
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Smriti Hossain, aged eight from Narayanganj Bangladesh had a cataract in each eye and was almost completely blind when Shirin Akhtar, an outreach worker supported by Sightsavers came across her. Her sight had been slowly fading for over a year, and the once familiar faces of her family were becoming blurred.
Smriti lives in a small corrugated, one-room house with her parents, two siblings, aunt and grandfather. Her father is the sole breadwinner and works in a local garment factory earning around £25 a month.
The once happy, outgoing little girl had become more and more introverted as her sight deteriorated.
"She plays and pretends to cook like any little girl but she can't join in with her friends playing games outside, the sunlight hurts her eyes, and she needs help moving around," said her mother Minara.
Smriti has now had both eyes operated on at Islamia Eye Hospital. Her plastic eye shield has protected her eye after the surgery and helped her make a quick recovery.