Dear friends of Eyecare; We just arrived back in the US after a long journey with a couple of ‘hiccups’ in the schedule. Ethiopian Airlines informed us when we reached Addis Abiba that our flight to Atlanta, Georgia had been cancelled. They rerouted us to Washington DC, and fortunately, we were able to catch another flight to Atlanta a few hours later. During our last week in Bulawayo, Steve saw patients in consultation, gave lectures, […]
Dear friends; This week has been a whirlwind of activity as we launched the new surgical retina program with our partners at the Mater Dei Hospital. Dr. Matt West, a retina surgeon from Birmingham, Alabama arrived on Saturday, February 22nd, and he began performing surgery on Monday, February 24th. Dr. Gilbert Moyo, the retina doctor in training, helped him, and quite soon after the first operation, Dr. West gave him some control over parts of […]