August 12, 2016
Rich is a 61-year-old woman from Cambodia with seven brothers and two sisters. Rich works as a rice farmer, and she enjoys visiting the pagoda to listen to the monks pray. Rich traveled three hours with her brother to reach Watsi’s medical partner, Children’s Surgical Centre (CSC), for treatment.
Rich developed a cataract in each eye. This clouding and deteriorating of the eye lens causes blurred vision and makes it hard for her to do her work.
With $292, Rich can receive a phacoemulsifaction procedure, in which an ultrasonic device is used to break up and then remove the cloudy lens. Followed by an intraocular lens implant in each eye, Rich will be able to see clearly again.
Let’s help Rich get back to her daily life as usual.
Rich is a 61-year-old woman from Cambodia with seven brothers and two sisters. Rich works as a rice farmer, and she enjoys visiting the pago...
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October 31, 2016
Rich successfully received vision-restoring cataract surgery.
Rich’s eye cataract was successfully removed from her left eye and clear vision has been restored. Following the operation, she was given eye drops to reduce inflammation and fight infection. Rich went home after the first surgery and has yet to return to have the same operation completed in the other eye. Because returning to the clinic requires taking a day off from work and usually a family escort, she may have had trouble finding a day to come back. Also, because she left with clear vision in one eye, her problems with blurred vision are less of a burden making the second surgery a less immediate priority than the first. The second surgery will be free whenever Rich returns.
“I feel very happy that I can see everything clearly again,” she says. “Now I can work in my rice fields and go anywhere on my own.”
Rich's eye cataract was successfully removed from her left eye and clear vision has been restored. Following the operation, she was given ey...
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