Retinal Camera for Kwale Eye Centre
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In Kenya, a diagnosis of diabetes can be a fatal one.
One of the complications of diabetes is diabetic retinopathy; a condition easily detected with a specialist fundus camera. Undetected, diabetic retinopathy can cause blindness, which in Kwale, a rural area with a poverty rate of about 70%, can mean inability to work, and so live.
Kwale Eye Centre currently have one retinal camera, and another would enable them to double the number of patients they can see, and so the number of people whose sight (and lives) could be saved.
Kwale Eye Centre also perform eye surgery, but are currently vastly underequipped (by western standards). They need more theatre boots and operating scrubs to improve levels of hygiene and safety - any extra money from this campaign will go towards these items, or if the target is not met, these will be sourced instead.
Every. Little. Helps.
To read more about my time in Kenya and my experience of the people there, and the desperate medical needs Kwale Eye Centre are helping to manage, please visit https://summat2thinkon.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/whats-on-kenyavision/ and go from there.
Huge, huge thanks xo
One of the complications of diabetes is diabetic retinopathy; a condition easily detected with a specialist fundus camera. Undetected, diabetic retinopathy can cause blindness, which in Kwale, a rural area with a poverty rate of about 70%, can mean inability to work, and so live.
Kwale Eye Centre currently have one retinal camera, and another would enable them to double the number of patients they can see, and so the number of people whose sight (and lives) could be saved.
Kwale Eye Centre also perform eye surgery, but are currently vastly underequipped (by western standards). They need more theatre boots and operating scrubs to improve levels of hygiene and safety - any extra money from this campaign will go towards these items, or if the target is not met, these will be sourced instead.
Every. Little. Helps.
To read more about my time in Kenya and my experience of the people there, and the desperate medical needs Kwale Eye Centre are helping to manage, please visit https://summat2thinkon.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/whats-on-kenyavision/ and go from there.
Huge, huge thanks xo
Organizer
Bonnie Baybee
Organizer
