Beatrix Spring, Marketing Manager International Affairs, was present when in a hardly accessible region in Nepal, a mobile eye camp was conducted.
The eight-member team reconnoitred Eye-camp immediately after arrival in Dolpa the dusty rooms, should be established in which the temporary treatment rooms. The aim was for a logical process structure set up the treatment process of waiting patients.
Two employees tested with buckets of water and sprinkled to the ground in order to bind the dust. The eye doctor said the premises and began disinfection, and the lining of the operating room with plastic. Once again proved the experienced team: administration, investigations, and surgical materials were packed in no time from the boxes and allocated logically.
There was no hospital in a working outhouse or water, was in demand innovation. Equally there is no space and a place to stay for the patients and companions. But somehow left to organize everything in the next few days, some with loud voices and sometimes with silent Action. Everything was focused on one goal: to treat patients and to give sight.
As a father waited with his blind wife and his handicapped brother in the leg. The brother was blind in one eye. The small group came together with their boys, they were 8 days and nights walking the road from the upper Dolpo. By rain, sun and wind - an incredible performance - uphill and downhill. Other patients was 3 or 4 days on the road and others only a few hours, but all were waiting for an investigation into whether blind eye or simply ill.
The patients and their companions camped in the open. Some were 8 days trekking their way to the eye camp for the journey.
Am 24.9. the first patients were operated on. 25 eyes in one day. The team was satisfied. There were no medical complications. Also, our cameraman was able to capture good images. Moreover, the rain came in the evening and at night, which says a lot easier.
After many discussions and deep impressions of the camp was packed up again four days later. The severe cases had of carriers for small airfield Jufal be worn on 2'700m. The camp team and we marched from the film crew hurriedly just before dusk also high to the airport where we hoped, the next morning with the propeller plane to fly back into the Terai. Without a toothbrush and washcloth stayed there somehow and we had luck with the weather the next day. We were able to depart by 10 clock.
Happy
300 people were checked and treated. 70 operations performed. 70 eyes could see again. We have enough material for an impressive film and new photographs.
In January, the film on DVD will be on display.
70 people were operated on and were given back their sight. For them, then began a new life.
photos of the eye camp
Beatrix Spring, SRK
The SRC in Nepal
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