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Our third Heidelberg Engineering sponsored Cybersight webinar will take place on tomorrow, Friday 19 July, 2024, at 1pm UTC. The virtual session, “Using OCT as an Approach to Diagnose Glaucomatous and Other Optic Neuropathies” will be hosted by Dr Christian Mardin. Sign up now: https://bit.ly/3LvpsdQ #ophthalmology #octtechnology #cataract #heidelbergengineering

✈️ The Flying Eye Hospital is getting ready to head to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia for its next training and sight-saving trip! Over three weeks, our expert medical volunteers will train local eye care teams to enhance surgical skills. The training begins with surgical simulation sessions, preparing teams for hands-on experience. Patients will then board the Flying Eye Hospital to receive sight-saving surgery, where the trained eye care teams will assist, gaining invaluable practical knowledge to benefit their communities for generations to come. Read more about the trip and impact: https://bit.ly/4bUgEsF #FlyingEyeHospital #Ulaanbaatar #Mongolia

Did you know two out of three children who are blind are girls? Through our long-term country programmes, women-led vision centres, Flying Eye Hospital projects, and Cybersight training, we are working with our partners to improve eye care for women and girls worldwide. 👉 Learn about how we are improving eye care and fighting for girls' right to sight: https://bit.ly/3W21fks #GirlsRightToSight #AvoidableBlindness

New Podcast Alert! The EyesOnTomorrow podcast, brought to you by Orbis UK trustee, volunteer, and ophthalmologist John Ferris, and optometrist Dermot Keogh. This podcast features in-depth conversations with leading figures in eye care, including ophthalmologists, optometrists, scientists, and professors. They will discuss their professional journeys, the challenges they've faced, and the innovations they’re pioneering. 🎧 Click here to listen on multiple platforms : https://bit.ly/4673DL5 🔗 Learn more about our partnership here: https://bit.ly/4fe0yxc #EyesOnTomorrow #Podcast

🌟 This week we began our five-day on-site Hospital-based Training in Trujillo, Peru! 🇵🇪 Our amazing Orbis medical volunteers are there to enhance the skills of local eye care professionals in treating glaucoma, the second-leading cause of blindness in Peru. 🌟 “Dedicated, on-site training can make a huge difference in a rural area,” says Dr. Doris Macharia, Senior Vice President of Global Programs at Orbis International. “When a hospital is the only option for specialised care, it's critical that its physicians and staff are equipped to handle both common and complex cases.” Click the link to read more and to see the picture capturing the moments from the first day of training! 👀 👉 https://bit.ly/4eSAMyq #OrbisHBT #GlaucomaAwareness

This Volunteers’ Week 2024 listen to Dr Ghalib Mukadam share his story of volunteering with Orbis: “If you can change a life and improve someone's life, why wouldn't you?” - For the past 10 years, Dr Ghalib has generously volunteered his time to train eye care professionals worldwide, enabling them to provide life-changing, eye care to their communities. 🌍 His most recent trip took him to Hawassa, Ethiopia, where he helped deliver hospital-based training to equip eye care teams with the skills needed to perform strabismus surgery. 👁️✨ Follow us for more inspiring content. 💙

🌟 On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, we’re honouring a revolutionary medical breakthrough inspired by wartime medicine. 🌟 During World War 2, Sir Harold Ridley noticed that Perspex shrapnel in pilots' eyes didn’t cause inflammation like glass did. This led to his pioneering idea: using Perspex for intraocular lenses, restoring sight to those with cataracts. Today, over 400,000 cataract surgeries are performed annually in the UK, thanks to Sir Harold Ridley’s life-changing work. Join us in celebrating his legacy. 🌍💙 #DDay #DDay80

We teamed up with Padium London's premium padel club, to raise awareness about some of the most common causes of avoidable vision loss around the world. Cataract, glaucoma and refractive error can all be treated via the quality eye care we often take for granted in the UK. Yet, for millions of people, these conditions harm education, livelihoods and the enjoyment of everyday life. By taking on the challenge of playing padel while wearing glasses that simulate cataract, glaucoma and other vision-reducing conditions, Padium UK members were given just a snapshot of how a person’s live can change significantly when they can’t access the eye care they need to thrive. Today there are 1.1 billion people globally who live with visual impairment or blindness. Yet 90% of these cases are avoidable or treatable. Our mission is to create eye care systems that put treatment and prevention within reach for all. A huge thank you to the amazing team at Padium UK for their support and commitment to helping end avoidable blindness. Find out more about our work https://gbr.orbis.org/en #Partnership #EyeCare #CommunitySupport #PreventBlindness #OrbisUKPadiumUK

🌟 Happy Volunteers’ Week 2024! 🌟 This week is dedicated to those who volunteer their time to help others. We are grateful to have around 400 incredible medical volunteers who are helping to give everyone the access to eye care they need to thrive. From ophthalmologists to nurses, anaesthetists to biomedical engineers, our volunteers from 30 countries share their skills to help more people see the world clearly. 🌍❤️ A huge thank you to our amazing volunteers – for helping to end avoidable blindness for all 👏 #VolunteerWeek #OrbisHeros

This World Bicycle Day we’re celebrating the power of the humble bike. 🚴♂️💙✨ Low cost, sustainable, yet high impact, especially when it comes to eye care. In the Copperbelt province of Zambia, there are many rural communities which even cars struggle to reach, so the mighty bike delivers community eye health champions to potential patients. Thanks to our Qatar Fund for Development supported programme in the region, 250 bicycles are helping people to get the eye care they deserve. What’s even more amazing is that a study has recently shown that for every hour of riding a day, a person’s risk of developing cataract could be reduced by 2%. So these dedicated individuals are also protecting their own sight as they cycle to work. World Bicycle Relief have also generously donated a further 24 bikes, to ensure these champions can have even more of an effect! This project is part of the @Qatar Creating Vision initiative, which is focusing on expanding access to eye care, particularly for children. Learn more about this project here: https://bit.ly/459GmIf 📷 Emmanuel Dube - Orbis Zambia #WorldBicycleDay