Medical Eye Camps Project

Implementing free charitable medical eye camps that include checkups, examinations, and conducting operations for diseases that lead to vision loss such as cataracts, glaucoma, and corneal diseases for the poorest and the displaced people, in addition to holding educational awareness programs in all the governorates of Yemen on blindness, its reasons and how to prevent it.

Objective

  • Participating in preventing blindness

Direct Beneficiaries

Year Governorate Camps Number Beneficiaries Number
2013 Al-Hudaydah 5 167
2014 Sana’a 4 2750
2015 Sana’a 1 47
2016 Sana’a 1 50
2017 Sana’a 4 129
2018 Sana’a 4 136
2019 Sana’a 1 26

Activities

  • Coordinating with the Ministry of Health and the Health Office in the Governorate.
  • Determining the place of performing the surgeries and forming the medical staff
  • The stage of examinations and checkups and determining the number of people in need of the surgeries.
  • Performing surgeries
  • Distributing drugs after the surgeries
  • Constant examinations after the surgeries and following up on its success
  • Submitting financial and administrative reports