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From the field / Eye health /

Sightsavers' Kate McCoy spent three days at a noisy roadside truck stop to see how Sightsavers is helping truck drivers to get the vital eye treatment they need.

October 2019

A health worker examines a woman's eyes.

News / Eye health /

The statistics feature in the World Health Organization's first World Report on Vision, published ahead of World Sight Day.

October 2019

Mercia laughs and celebrates with a trachoma surgery patient after her bandages have been removed.

Stories / Eye health /

Mercia, from Mozambique, has worked at Sightsavers since 2010, and is determined to make sure everyone can get good-quality eye care.

Selben smiles with a group of health staff in Nigeria.

Stories / Eye health /

Selben is an ophthalmologist who works for Sightsavers in Kaduna, Nigeria. She manages our programmes and makes sure people are treated for potentially blinding eye conditions.

A woman with a bandaged eye and a girl smiling

News / Eye health /

Sightsavers is launching a three-year programme to provide quality eye care to rural populations in the Morogoro and Singida regions.

October 2019

Stories / Eye health /

Opthalmic nurse Postan Phiri is a popular figure in the communities he visits in rural Zambia, referring patients with cataracts for sight-saving surgery.

Lovemore on a swing smiling after his operation

From the field / Eye health /

In eastern Zambia, Sightsavers’ Corinna May met nine-year-old Lovemore and saw his amazing transformation following sight-saving cataract surgery.

September 2019

Ruby Hammer using a tablet to test the cataract simulator.

News / Eye health /

Broadcaster Fiona Phillips, TV doctor Dr Sara Kayat and celebrity make-up artist Ruby Hammer tried the simulator as part of a push to raise awareness about sight loss.

September 2019

A student covers one eye during an eye test at a school in India.

Stories / Eye health /

Mr Aahiswar is head teacher at Rangai Middle School in central India. He has been trained to screen students for vision problems so children can get the life-changing help they need.

Two surgeons at work in the operating theatre at Mymensingh hospital. They're wearing green scrubs.

From the field / Eye health /

Robbie Peacock and Ciara Smullen travelled to the northern town of Mymensingh to visit a hospital that is saving the sight of thousands of people a year.

July 2019

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Eye health

Roadside eye care: helping Indian truckers stay safe behind the wheel

New figures show more than a billion people have avoidable vision impairment

Mercia’s story

Selben’s story

Sightsavers launches eye health programme in Tanzania

Postan’s story

A childhood restored and a future secured

Celebrities experience the effects of cataracts using Sightsavers simulator

How we’re training teachers to spot blinding eye conditions

The hospital in Bangladesh that’s restoring sight and changing lives

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