FLAIR microscopes in double pack to cope with flood of patients

Waiting patients

A veritable flood of patients faced the medical team at the two-week Eye Camp in Kainantu in PNG's Eastern Highlands Province at the beginning of October.

The immense number of patients travelled partly over several days from the Momase region and the Highlands to take the rare chance of treatment. Some of them had to be admitted to makeshift accommodation during their stay, where they were cared for by the hospital.

Through an almost superhuman effort by the team of ophthalmologists and nurses who came from other provinces in Papua New Guinea, a full 1379 patients were registered in the end and 459 of them were successfully operated on in parallel use of two of our portable FLAIR microscopes in the two operating rooms. What a feat of achievement!

Temporary patient accommodation