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Blue in Action NGO, Local Police of Murcia, has returned to Togo to treat eye problems population.
During your stay, from 1 to October 19, has made 186 transactions surgical therapy and has treated 1,939 people with a total of 3,502 consultations.
This is the sixth year that performs this organization, which has Eye Hospital Ciudad de Murcia, a mobile hospital which undertakes consultations and operations.
A Togo has moved a team of six oftalmólgos two anesthesiologists, five nurses, two optical-six logisticians.
The hospital is installed in the city of Kara, one of the most populated areas of the country.
Councilmember Equality Policy and Development Cooperation, Alicia Waterman, recalled that the city of Murcia maintains its support for international cooperation that has been working for many years with various NGOs working in township health improvement and training of desfavorecidad people.
The population of Togo has many vision problems and many people are 100% disabling blindness caused by diseases such as Cataract and glaucoma, with many of those belonging to the group of blind children.
This situation is caused by the high level of poverty of the population and almost non-existent medical care, primarily in ophthalmology and optics.
Families have a subsistence economy based on agriculture and poor smallholder livestock, which barely generated as resources to meet basic needs such as food, can not afford to move to the few medical centers and if they could get not have money to pay for medical care, much less buy medicine or glasses
The Murcia City Eye Hospital has been funded by the city of Murcia, CARM, Cajamurcia Foundation, La Caixa, College of Physicians in the Region of Murcia, Murcia Optical Association, and various companies and individuals.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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