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news Ethiopia

Sight Restored to 1570 Patients in War-Torn Tigray

HCP is the first and only eye care NGO to enter the Tigray region since war broke out two years ago. After much-needed equipment repairs and restocking medical supplies, we...
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news Ethiopia

Vision is Power: Restoring Vision for Over 1,500 Patients in Ethiopia

Last month, HCP’s Ethiopian team helped local providers perform over 1,500 sight-restoring cataract surgeries at Boru Meda Hospital over the course of five days. Two of the patients speak to...
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videos Ethiopia

Short film highlights impact of sight restoration

In Bisidimo, Ethiopia earlier this year, HCP Cureblindness' Ethiopian team helped local partners provide hundreds of people with sight-restoring cataract surgeries. Patients describe their journeys of living in darkness and...
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news Ethiopia

Over 2,600 sight-restoring surgeries in Ethiopia during October

HCP’s Ethiopian team helped local partners provide over 2,600 sight-restoring surgeries at four different cataract outreach events throughout October. The surgical events took place in Wolaita Sodo, Bisidimo, Bahir Dar...
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Celebrations around the globe mark World Sight Day

Every year on the second Thursday in October, the global eye care community comes together to mark World Sight Day - a special day to focus global attention on blindness...
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profiles Ethiopia

Dr. Muluken Fantaw

HCP partners play a key role in improving and expanding eye care in the communities we serve. Providing training opportunities in sub-specialities (e.g. cornea, retina, pediatrics, oculoplastics) empowers medical professionals...
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news Ethiopia

Story From the Field: Fetiya Abduletif Abdula

During a recent outreach in Bisidimo, Ethiopia HCP Board Member Dr. Matt Oliva helped lead a surgical outreach with fellow board member Dr. Guy Kezirian where over 1,250 patients received...
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news Ethiopia

Trade Secrets: Partnership Shares Outreach Blueprint

On the second morning of a recent outreach in Bisidimo, Ethiopia patients are dancing and yelling out with joy as a team of doctors from the USA, Ethiopia and Tanzania...
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profiles Ethiopia

Patient Story: The Three Sisters

At an HCP outreach at the Woldia Specialized Hospital in Ethiopia, we met the three Teshome sisters: 10-year-old Makoya, eight-year-old ​​Tejitu and six-year-old Addise. All three girls were suffering from...
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