Ophthalmologists travel to Fijian village, performing 137 surgeries in six days

By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (DonaJayne Potts)

The head of ophthalmology at Loma Linda University Health assembled a team of cataract surgeons to perform corrective eye surgeries in Fiji, a country where vision care and glasses are limited and procedures to restore eyesight aren’t common.
Michael Rauser, MD, department chair of the Loma Linda University Eye Institute, and a team of world-renowned cataract surgeons traveled to Nadi, Fiji, last month to perform 137 surgeries in six days.
According to Rauser, the group performed 135 cataract…

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