
According to the World Heath Organisation, 39 million people world wide are blind and yet, 80% suffer needlessly. ORBIS are a worldwide charity fighting blindness in developing countries and transforming lives.
Crucial to their success, is the Flying Eye Hospital, and it’s team of dedicated eye-care professionals who travel the world, offering treatment, exchanging knowledge and teaching new skills to local medics, with a view to a sustainable future.
The Flying Eye Hospital is a refurbished DC-10 jet aircraft, housing operating theatres, recovery rooms and a 48 seat classroom where local doctors can watch live surgical procedures and ask questions to the surgeons via a high tech audio-visual system. And the team that carry out the training are just as impressive-highly trained specialists in all aspects of eye care and surgery who travel the world for 300 days a year, often away from home for 3 months at a time.
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