The Calpe-based NGO, Visió Sense Fronteres, is about to start three new eye check-up and cataract surgery campaigns in Africa. On this occasion, it will first travel to Senegal where it plans to carry out the revision of patients who underwent cataract surgery in December.
The expedition is made up of two optometrists and an ophthalmologist who will attend to the patients in a small clinic run by a Spanish nun in the Sam Sam 3 area on the outskirts of Dakar.
They will then travel by road to the south of Mauritania, where they will carry out visual check-ups and care for the general population. The Rotary Club of Jávea and the Rotary Club of La Manga del Mar Menor are collaborating in this project.
On the other hand, after returning from this expedition, the Calpe-based NGO is scheduled to start a new campaign in Cameroon on 27 March, specifically in the capital Yaoundé. A team of seven people will travel there - two ophthalmologists, two nurses, two optometrists and a collaborator. They will be supported by a local ophthalmologist with whom they usually collaborate. In this case the objective of the campaign will be the treatment of blindness due to cataracts and it is estimated that they will carry out around 250 surgical interventions.
Calpe Town Council is once again collaborating with Visió Sense Fronteres projects and has allocated a grant of 15,000 euros for this year 2024.