Charity’s bespoke aeroplane flies the globe training local medics to treat the preventable causes of eye disease
In Kitwe, the second largest city in Zambia, young mother Verah is carrying her one-year-old daughter, Racheal, into the consultation room at the eye annexe. The only dedicated paediatric eyecare centre in the country, the Kitwe annexe also attracts patients from neighbouring Angola and Congo. Racheal is here for surgery to remove the bilateral cataracts that prevent her from seeing.
A few months after Racheal was born, Verah noticed that something didn’t seem right with her vision. “I would move my hands in front of her face but she would not react. I would move things past her eyes but she would not follow them,” she explains.
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