Nkhoma Eye Hospital

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

Nkhoma Eye HospitalMalawi

CBM-supported eye care programme in Southern Africa

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

Nkhoma Eye HospitalMalawi

CBM-supported eye care programme in Southern Africa

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Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

Nkhoma Eye Hospital

• Africa• Malawi

• Nkhoma Christian Mission Hospital

• Nkhoma Eye Hospital

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

10 Million Celebration

• cbm work throughout the world• Largest INGO tackling disability• 10 million cataract operations in past 100 years

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

The Scale of Blindness

• 45 million blind people globally• 7 million blind in Africa

• Malawi has 14 million population• 1% are blind• 70,000 are blind from cataract • 350,000 need cataract operation for blindness

or severe visual impairment

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

Nkhoma’s Area of Work

• Central Malawi• 4 million population• 4 eye surgeons• 100,000 people who need cataract surgery

• Childhood blindness, glaucoma, trachoma• Training

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

Nkhoma Eye Hospital

• Since 1999, Dr Nick Metcalfe from Sunderland developed the most productive district eye unit with a single eye surgeon, in African history.

• Dr Nick & the Nkhoma team pioneered high volume high quality cataract surgery in a rural African setting

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

Nkhoma Eye Hospital Sustainability

• Malawian Clinical Officer Cataract surgeon• Training Malawi Ophthalmologists

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

Nkhoma Eye Hospital

• To date, over 30,000 cataract operations performed at Nkhoma.

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

cbm Support

• CBM supported Nkhoma for past• 34 years

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

Cataract Surgery

• In UK NHS, one cataract operation costs £1,000 • Privately £bit more

• In Nkhoma, one cataract operations costs £20

• The average annual income in Malawi is £250• Surgery costs the patient £0

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

Why does Cataract Surgery in Nkhoma Cost £20?

• Transport & Case-finding

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

Rural Africa

• We work in Central Malawi, a very rural area of Africa

• 85% of population are subsistence farmers living in villages with no electricity, some water, and annual maize crops to feed the family.

• Some of the poorest of the poorest people of the World

• 74% live below the international poverty line of $1.25 a day

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

What do we do?

• Mobile clinics in villages• Screen and see people in churches, clinics,

football fields, under a tree

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

What do we do?

• Cataract Case Finders• Drive on motorbikes in their catchment area

villages all week screening for potential patients

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

£20

• Patients receive: • Accommodation• 3 meals a day• Surgery• Medicines• Glasses if needed• Transport

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

A Patient’s Journey

• In the mobile clinic

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

A Patient’s Journey

• In the hospital

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

A Patient’s Journey

• Back at home with the family

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

A New Life

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

A Patient’s Journey

• In the mobile clinic

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

A Patient’s Journey

• In the hospital

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

A Patient’s Journey

• Back at home

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

A New Life

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

Why do we do this?

• Because of CBM’s support• Because people in rural Malawi do not have the

means to travel and pay for surgery• Because blindness is avoidable• Because of the burden of the disability on the

person, their family and community

• Because everyone has a Right to Sight

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

But why?

• Humanitarianism• Honouring a person’s dignity, who does not have a

choice

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

cbm

• Largest international organisation tackling disability

• Experience of over 100 years

• 10 million cataract operations performed

• Koano kwa tsopano, moano ma tsopano• New sight, New Life

Nkhoma Eye Hospital, Malawi October 2010

Thank you..

• And 10 million times again, Thank You.

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