12/01/22

良好的视野“生存的关键”

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白内障手术后,男孩在上课的第一天坐在课堂上坐着眼镜。版权:Tommy Trenchard/Sightsavers,CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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Season 2, Episode 16

An estimated three million people in Uganda live with vision loss, and more than 80,000 of them are blind. The most common cause of blindness in Uganda — cataracts — can be corrected with straightforward surgery. But with only 45 eye doctors for 46 million people, treatment is out of reach in many of Uganda’s communities.

Gladys Atto is the sole ophthalmologist serving 1.2 million people in Uganda’s remote Karamoja region. Atto – who recently won the prestigious Josephine Nambooze Women in Medicine award – tells Africa Science Focus that a new Sightsavers-supported ‘superstructure’ will mean she can begin training new doctors to help with her mission to reverse avoidable blindness.

非洲科学重点,与迈克尔·卡洛基(Michael Kaloki)。

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