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Thursday, 13 December 2007 |
Overview
MERCY Malaysia conducted a special mission of an eye camp addressing the needs for cataract surgery as well as a training-of-trainers programme for paediatric nurses in West Darfur.
Cataract Surgery
In August 2006, MERCY Malaysia deployed a team of two volunteer ophthalmologists to Khartoum, Sudan to assist the Sudanese Islamic Medica Association (SIMA) conduct cataract surgery.
The team braved an almost eight-hour journey in a four-wheel drive to the Dongla district hospital where they spent two days, from 24th to 25th August. The team travelled back to Khartoum on 26th August and was based at the Cataract Camp Khartoum in the Khartoum Eye Teaching Hospital from 27th to 30th August performing surgery and treating patients. One hundred and twenty-seven patients were operated on while another 1,800 received outpatient treatment at Camp Khartoum.
Training-of-trainers for Paediatric Care
MERCY Malaysia also conducted a four-month training-of-trainers programme for two paediatric nurses from El Genina General Hospital in West Darfur. The nurses were trained at the Khartoum Police Hospital to care for babies in incubators that were donated by MERCY Malaysia. Once their training was completed, the nurses returned to El Genina General Hospital to work in the hospital's Special Care Nursery.
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