Project: From blind to sight
Rotary Club of Ribeirão Preto - District 4540
Ribeirao Preto - SP
Brazil
Name of the project: Sight to blind
Focus Area: HUMANITARIAN PROJECTS / DISEASE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
The objective is to recover vision of 250 blind and / or low vision eyes due to corneal changes in 200 patients. The cornea is the first interface between light from the external environment and the eye. The diseased cornea can be quite irregular leading the patient to blindness. However, it is a type of REVERSIBLE blindness. Currently, we can treat these irregular corneas using special contact lenses. In the vast majority of cases, the patient regains 100% of his vision, changing his life from a highly vulnerable social condition to a normal person. We will recover the sight of 250 eyes of needy, visually impaired patients from the region of Ribeirão Preto - SP. They are awaiting medical attention at the HC-FMRP-USP Ophthalmology Outpatient Clinic. As such, we will benefit hundreds of blind patients and provide training to 57 medical residents during the project to perform these same procedures later throughout Brazil.
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