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Thanks to the team of collaborators displaced by the NGO Murcia Azul Acción NGO, for 20 days it has been possible to operate and return sight in Senegal to 300 blind people, many of them children, to treat diverse eye pathologies of 1127 people and to grade the view Of a large population.

This initiative, carried out in the region of Thies by 28 specialized technicians, ophthalmologists, anesthetists, nursing technicians, opticians and logistics technicians, has been possible by donating 345 graduated glasses and 450 sunglasses to people who needed them and did not have them Resources to acquire them.

The campaign has been developed in the facilities of the Hospital of Thiadiaye, where they have taken advantage of their diaphanous rooms to assemble all the equipment of consultation and surgery of the Transportable Hospital Oftalmológico 'City of Murcia', that Blue in Action has moved to Senegal and Has installed for the intervention.

With the purpose of bringing ophthalmological assistance to especially depressed rural groups, who lack access to this type of assistance and who live in countries with a high degree of underdevelopment, in 2010, with the support and collaboration, among others , Of the City of Murcia, Azul en Acción built the Transportable Ophthalmological Hospital "City of Murcia".

All the technical means carried to the place and belonging to the endowment of the Hospital 'Ciudad de Murcia', are of last generation and have allowed to provide a first level health care to the population.

The Councilor for Development Cooperation, Rebeca Pérez, who presented the balance with the Councilor for Traffic, Safety and Citizen Protection, Lola Sánchez, remarked that "the team has worked for several interminable days of more than 16 hours with conditions Climatic conditions of high heat and humidity, to bring ophthalmological and optical assistance to a population with a high poverty rate and alarming eye problems. "

In addition Blue in Action has carried out throughout the year 2016 the campaign 'Give your glasses a new life' in collaboration with the clinics VISTA IRCOVISIÓN, in which many opticians of Murcia have collected thousands of used glasses that once reconditioned , Are delivered to needy people in countries where the NGO develops its projects.

Also in collaboration with the City of Murcia and other actors, Azul en Acción held in the municipality of Murcia various events to celebrate World Sight Day, with the purpose of raising public awareness about the importance of eye health mainly between the Young people, as well as raise awareness of the problem that exists in developing countries, where people of different ages are blind because they do not have ophthalmological health care.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia