Month: February 2023

It’s mid February 2023, and so far this year we’ve sent off 30 boxes of donated equipment to the hospitals and clinics in northern Malawi. Contents include new lenses and frames, glasses cases, lens hand-edgers, focimeters, surgical equipment, optical equipment spares, and vision test charts. The parcels go from Colchester by courier to our friends…

To promote further World Sight Day (see previous post) and the importance of “loving your eyes” on 13 October, the mission hospitals staff provided free eye-testing for the public in Mzuzu’s city centre. The demand was heavy and some of the government hospital clinicians attending the conference joined in to help. But there were so…

The World Sight Day Conference on 13 October 2022 (see previous post) was a great success. Clinicians and key people from every health district and hospital in the north of Malawi attended and some gave presentations about their own eye-clinic services, including successes and challenges. Staff from DGMH prepared the venue and ensured delegates were…