The NGO based in Calp, Visió sense fronteres, is preparing to deploy its humanitarian work in Africa with three new campaigns aimed at eye care. Firstly, the team will travel to Senegal to carry out reviews of patients who underwent cataract surgery last December.
Two optometrists and an ophthalmologist make up the expedition that will treat patients in a small dispensary run by a Spanish nun in the Sam Sam 3 area, on the outskirts of Dakar.
Subsequently, the team will travel by road to the south of Mauritania, where they will carry out visual checks and provide care to the general population. This project has the collaboration of the Rotary Club of Jávea and the Rotary Club of La Manga del Mar Menor.
Once this mission is completed, the Calpine NGO is scheduled to start a new campaign in Cameroon on March 27, specifically in the capital, Yaoundé. A team of seven people, made up of two ophthalmologists, two nurses, two optometrists and one collaborator, will carry out around 250 surgical interventions to treat cataract blindness. In addition, they will have the support of a local ophthalmologist with whom they often collaborate.
Calp City Council continues its collaboration with the Visió sense Fronteres projects, allocating a subsidy of 2024 euros for the year 15.000.
