In the remote Hela Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG), a remarkable two-week eye outreach project took place in Tari.

Dr Rainald Duerksen, a renowned ophthalmologist, is running an important training project in the Democratic Republic of Congo on behalf of the Christoffel Blind Mission (CBM).

South Sudan, which became independent in 2011, is the youngest country in the world and currently ranks at the bottom of the United Nations Human Development Index after many years of civil war.

Since its delivery in 2018, the FLAIR P5 portable surgical microscope of Dr Waimbe Wahamu has had an impressive track record.

Its destination: the Ave Maria Mission near Source Yubu in the Western Equatoria Province of South Sudan.

“Reaching the unreached”, this was the motto of two recent medical eye camps in Papua New Guinea.

With Kabanga Village, near Kasulu in the Kigoma region, TanZanEye e.V. is preparing to complete the triple on Lake Tanganyika.

In the short time of only one week, a team led by Dr Waimbe Wahamu had to stage an eye camp on the autonomous island province of Bougainville.

Travelogue by Dr Andrea Huth, Halle/Saale.

After a 2-year break, I was finally back travelling to Africa with my FLAIR P5 surgical microscope from Prechtl TechSolutions.

To ensure a positive healing process of the often large-area flap grafts, distractors placed on the outside of the face are usually used for noma patients.