DUBAI // The Noor Dubai Foundation has provided eye-care services for thousands of people in Sudan.
During the six-day “mobile eye camp”, the foundation provided diagnostic and therapeutic eye services to 4,920 patients, performed 307 surgeries and distributed 1,800 eyeglasses.
The camp was held in Kenana Sugar Company Hospital in Kenana City, located 300 kilometres from Khartoum. The area has a population of about 1.8 million, but only has three opthalmologists available and no specialty eye hospitals, said Dr Manal Omran Taryam, chief executive of the foundation.
Dr Taryam said the foundation reached out to more than 23 million people and aims to reach 30 million worldwide by 2025.
About 1.5 per cent of Sudan’s population suffers from blindness, mainly caused by cataracts, glaucoma, trachoma and onchocerciasis, according to the foundation.
The camp was held from October 2 to 7 and is supported by the Dubai Islamic Humanitarian Foundation.
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