Nkhoma Eye Hospital

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Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010 Nkhoma Eye Hospital Malawi CBM-supported eye care programme in Southern Africa

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Dr Will Dean, Consultant Ophthalmologist at the CBM-supported Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi, talks about his work restoring sight through cataract surgery.

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Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

Nkhoma Eye HospitalMalawi

CBM-supported eye care programme in Southern Africa

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Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

Nkhoma Eye HospitalMalawi

CBM-supported eye care programme in Southern Africa

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Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

Nkhoma Eye Hospital

• Africa• Malawi

• Nkhoma Christian Mission Hospital

• Nkhoma Eye Hospital

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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

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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

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Nkhoma’s Area of Work

• Central Malawi• 4 million population• 4 eye surgeons• 100,000 people who need cataract surgery

• Childhood blindness, glaucoma, trachoma• Training

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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

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Nkhoma Eye Hospital Sustainability

• Malawian Clinical Officer Cataract surgeon• Training Malawi Ophthalmologists

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Nkhoma Eye Hospital

• To date, over 30,000 cataract operations performed at Nkhoma.

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cbm Support

• CBM supported Nkhoma for past• 34 years

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Cataract Surgery

• In UK NHS, one cataract operation costs £1,000 • Privately £bit more

• In Nkhoma, one cataract operations costs £20

• The average annual income in Malawi is £250• Surgery costs the patient £0

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Why does Cataract Surgery in Nkhoma Cost £20?

• Transport & Case-finding

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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

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What do we do?

• Mobile clinics in villages• Screen and see people in churches, clinics,

football fields, under a tree

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What do we do?

• Cataract Case Finders• Drive on motorbikes in their catchment area

villages all week screening for potential patients

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£20

• Patients receive: • Accommodation• 3 meals a day• Surgery• Medicines• Glasses if needed• Transport

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A Patient’s Journey

• In the mobile clinic

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A Patient’s Journey

• In the hospital

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A Patient’s Journey

• Back at home with the family

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A New Life

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A Patient’s Journey

• In the mobile clinic

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A Patient’s Journey

• In the hospital

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A Patient’s Journey

• Back at home

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A New Life

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Why do we do this?

• Because of CBM’s 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

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But why?

• Humanitarianism• Honouring a person’s dignity, who does not have a

choice

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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

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Thank you..

• And 10 million times again, Thank You.

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Thank you..