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A team of thirty people will travel to the African country for this campaign, which will pay special attention to children suffering from congenital diseases that cause blindness, as well as eye infections and refractive errors.
Azul en Acción, which has had the support of the City of Murcia since its inception, has carried out 15 campaigns in Morocco, Togo, India and Senegal, in which they have treated 25,613 people and carried out 2,155 surgeries, especially cataracts.
Senegal is going to be the next destination of action of the NGO Azul en Acción, prepared to carry out a new project of health care in ophthalmology and optics to especially vulnerable population groups.
On this occasion, the area of ​​intervention will be the rural areas of the Thies region.
This new expedition was presented this morning by the councilors of Social Rights and Development Cooperation, Conchita Ruiz, and Traffic, Security and Citizen Protection, Lola Sánchez, along with the president of the NGO, Jesus Franco Vicente, accompanied by other members who participate in this initiative.
This project, which falls within the framework of the WHO international program for the international eradication of avoidable blindness 'Vision 2020', aims to give access to visual health to thousands of people living in areas with a low rate of social and human development, with very limited access to health care and much less specialized care, such as ophthalmology.
Attention to 4,000 people
With this action, Azul en Acción, founded in 2000 by Local Police of the City of Murcia, will assist 4,000 people of all ages suffering from eye diseases and deficient vision due to refractive errors, with a forecast of treating 2,800 people with drugs. 400 surgeries of pathologies that, like cataract or glaucoma, cause disabling blindness, and correct refractive defects by donating glasses to 800 people.
To this end, the NGO will move to the intervention site a team of volunteers consisting of 6 ophthalmologists, 2 anesthesiologists, 3 opticians, 12 nursing technicians and 7 experts in logistics, most of them professionals from the Region of Murcia.
All necessary consultation and surgery equipment, medicines, health supplies, glasses, etc. will also be moved to the area.
in order to guarantee quality health care.
Consultations and operating room
The care intervention campaign will be developed in the facilities of the Hospital of Mbour, where in the open rooms provided by this hospital, Azul en Acción will set up a complete ophthalmology and optician hospital with consultation services and operating room.
Although the care action is aimed at people of all ages with eye problems, special attention will be paid to children suffering from congenital diseases that cause blindness, as well as eye infections and refractive errors.
Azul en Acción, which works in ophthalmology and optics assistance projects since 2007, has carried out 15 campaigns in these years in Morocco, Togo, India and Senegal, with the following results, which have allowed to consult and treat 25,613 people , perform 2,155 surgeries, especially cataracts, and attend to 5,918 people with refraction and correction.
The City of Murcia, which has collaborated with the NGO in a large part of the projects carried out, is one of the main collaborators, together with the CARM, and other private entities such as Obra Social La Caixa, Cajamurcia Foundation, The Faculty of Optics and optometry of the University of Murcia, Vega Baja Hospital, etc.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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