After less than three months, a 10-member team led by Dr. Karsten Paust was once again on mission in the medically severely underserved west of Tanzania.

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... if only we have the eyes to see them“, Ernst R. Hauschka wrote.

It may have been meant figuratively, but the 7-year-old Frank can now actually enjoy the magical sunsets in his home East New Britain.

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Little Lucy from Kalay in western Myanmar has made her way into a normal life.

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In addition to the happiness about their regained eyesight, patients at the eye outreach held from 24-28 December in Bulolo (Morobe Province, PNG) also enjoyed a distinguished visitor.

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It was not his fault, but he was badly hurt. Fortunately, it was only the blunt end of a dart that hit the seven-year-old Roddy in the left eye. Nevertheless, it was seriously injured.

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Even in these difficult corona times, the ophthalmologist Dr. Waimbe Wahamu is tirelessly on the road, visiting and operating on patients in remote regions of Papua New Guinea.

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The start into life on 11 March 2010 was not an easy one for Lyodd Wangoro. Only 1360 grams body weight and bilateral congenital cataract are not good conditions for a promising future.

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Luck for Min Thit Phyo. Born deaf in Kant-Kaw, Central Myanmar, that boy of poor farmers had no chance of a normal life at first. Without being able to hear, he faced an existence on the edge of society.

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In an ENT surgery week held at the EENT Specialist Hospital in Mandalay, Myanmar, from 20-24 January 2020, our new video technology was able to show its full potential.

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Dr. Geoffrey Wabulembo, an ophthalmologist from Uganda, will assume the position of Medical Director for Eye Health and Neglected Tropical Diseases at Light for the World in early 2020.

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Under the direction of Dr. Andrea Huth, the second ophthalmological Interplast operation was carried out at the Hôpital de Léo, Burkina Faso, from 30.11. to 14.12.2019.

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After the collapse of medical care as a result of the genocide in 1994, there was no further training opportunity for ENT specialists in Rwanda until 2009.

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At the annual congress of the German Ophthalmological Society from 26-29 September 2019, ophthalmologist Dr. Johann Dillinger was honoured with the Award for Tropical Ophthalmology.

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Under the title "Hundreds in Fatima benefit from eye surgery" Daniel Gerson of the newspaper "highlands" reports about a one-week eye outreach program in the Jiwaka province of Papua New Guinea.

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Approx. 1300 patients were waiting for the ENT medical team of "EAGLE European Association of Global Lecturing ENT e.V." in Kalay, Myanmar, at the beginning of January 2019 to get the chance for treatment during this one-week "guest performance".

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At the DKVB Annual Meeting 2019, Ugandan ophthalmologist Dr. Geoffrey Wabulembo reports on the economic impact of cataract surgery in Papua New Guinea.

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During the week-long outreach camp for cataract surgeries in the Dei District, Dr. Wahamu's portable microscope was once again put to good use.

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From 28.10. to 12.11.2017 an Interplast-mission took place in Sumbawanga/Southwest Tanzania with the main focus on eye surgery and aftercare of the patients operated in the previous mission (with the main focus on plastic surgery and traumatology).

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