by Maytal Yasur Beit-Or
Volunteer delegation of Israeli medical professionals travel to Kyrgyzstan to treat patients, many of them blind for many years • "Many remain blind only because the doctors in their country don't have the means to treat them," says delegation director.
A team of Eye from Zion
volunteers operate on a patient
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Photo credit: Eye from Zion  |
A group of doctors from Israel restored the
eyesight of 90 adults and children in Kyrgyzstan earlier this month in
an ambitious endeavor undertaken by the Eye from Zion organization.
Eye from Zion is a volunteer Israeli-Jewish
group established to provide medical treatment to underprivileged
populations around the world. The organization sends delegations of
experienced medical professionals and advanced equipment to places where
they are needed most. The Eye from Zion delegations perform surgeries
together with local medical teams and instruct local doctors on modern
medical techniques.
Many of the patients treated this month in Kyrgyzstan had been blind for years.
The delegation, which included Dr. Yonina Ron
from the pediatric ophthalmology team at Schneider Children's Medical
Center and Dr. Asher Milstein from Kaplan Medical Center, arrived in
Kyrgyzstan a week and a half ago to perform complicated procedures such
as cornea surgery, plastic surgery, tumor removal and the treatment of
cataracts in children.
Among the patients were several members of the
Kyrgyzstani Jewish community, and the head of the Jewish community in
the country stressed that the arrival of the Israeli delegation had
contributed to elevating the status of the community.
Professor Dov Weinberger, the head of the Ophthalmology
Division at the Rabin Medical Center in Petach Tikva and the medical
director of the Eye from Zion delegation, remarked: "I get excited every
time an Israeli delegation uses its knowledge and medical experience to
restore people's eyesight. Many patients remain blind only because the
doctors in their countries do not possess the know how or the modern
means to perform these surgeries."
Maytal Yasur Beit-Or
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=27859
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