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Impact Report Small file for online

Impact Report Small file for online

YOUR SUPPORT ORBIS VOLUNTEER FACULTY WHAT YOU MADE
YOUR IMPACT POSSIBLE IN 2017
19 CANADIAN DOCTORS, NURSES, ANESTHETISTS
With your support in 2017, Orbis made great strides in AND ENGINEERS VOLUNTEERED ON ORBIS IMPACT
the fight to end avoidable blindness. PROJECTS IN 2017. REP2O0R1T7

4,453 DOCTORS 143% Our world-renowned Volunteer Faculty are vital to
TRAINED maintaining Canada’s longstanding contribution to saving
INCREASE sight across the globe. The heartbeat of our training programs
around the world, these leading experts in eye health share
57,92851% ADDITIONAL their knowledge, skills and techniques with eye care teams in
EYE CARE developing countries so they can prevent and treat blindness
INCREASE PROFESSIONALS in their own communities for generations to come.
TRAINED

5,044,198 66 PROJECTS. 26 COUNTRIES. 3 CONTINENTS.

EYE SCREENINGS AND 43% 66 LONG-TERM SIGHT-SAVING
EXAMINATIONS CONDUCTED PROJECTS UNDERWAY
INCREASE
72 HOSPITAL-BASED TRAINING PROGRAMS
Alice Lee Dr. Brian Leonard Dr. Asim Ali and ACROSS 26 COUNTRIES
Vietnam, May Vietnam, May Dr. Crystal Cheung
143 VOLUNTEER FACULTY FROM
Vietnam, May 17 COUNTRIES

17% 96,398

INCREASE SURGERIES AND LASER
TREATMENTS PERFORMED

8,776,120 CHANGING
THE WAY THE
WORLD SEES

Dr. Stephen Brodovsky Dr. Carla Blackburn Dr. Yasser Khan 19 CANADIAN MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
Zambia, October Cameroon, October Cameroon, October VOLUNTEERED ON THE FLYING EYE
HOSPITAL AND IN HOSPITAL-BASED
20% MEDICAL AND OPTICAL Registered Charity no: 88649 0094 RR0001 TRAINING PROGRAMS
TREATMENTS PERFORMED Orbis.org | 1.416.413.7925
INCREASE Orbis Canada, 340 College St. Suite 375, Toronto, ON M5T 3A9.

SAVING SIGHT AND DELIVERING EYE CARE PREVENTING SERVING COMMUNITIES IN
CHANGING LIVES TRAINING AROUND AVOIDABLE BLINDNESS REMOTE AREAS
THE WORLD
96,398 SURGERIES AND 5,044,198 EYE SCREENINGS AND Cybersight, our award-winning online platform, enables our
LASER TREATMENTS PERFORMED. 62,381 DOCTORS AND OTHER MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS CONDUCTED. expert volunteers to teach and support eye care teams in
PROFESSIONALS TRAINED. remote, otherwise inaccessible areas around the world.
Bahida is a 26-year-old high school teacher from Yaoundé, Screening is the most
Cameroon. At 8 years old, she accidentally poked herself in Our training programs in 26 countries provided more than efficient and cost-effective In 2017, our expert volunteers connected with doctors from
the eye, leaving her partially blind. Over time, her damaged 62,000 doctors, nurses and health workers with the knowledge, tool in the fight against across the globe to provide consultation on 1,772 complex
eye developed a cataract and also began turning outward. skills and expertise to deliver high-quality eye care to millions. avoidable blindness. It is the patient cases. We delivered 78 live, online training sessions
best way to identify risks or
In October 2017, she was treated on board the Orbis Flying “I feel both proud conditions that could lead “The Cybersight team
Eye Hospital. With local doctors and eye care professionals and privileged to to vision problems, long- and mentors have played
looking on, an Orbis Volunteer Faculty member from India, be counted as an term visual impairment, or
Dr. Ruchi Goel, expertly removed Bahida’s cataract and Orbis-trained paediatric vision loss. Ending avoidable a major part in my
surgically repaired her damaged eye. ophthalmologist” blindness is as much about professional development
prevention as it is about
She could once again see colours and small details, and Dr. Ted Afetane treatment. Screening as an ophthalmologist.
her depth-perception had returned. Her vision was clear, her enables Orbis-trained eye Due to the lack of
self-confidence was back, and her life was transformed. Among those medical care professionals to identify
professionals is Dr. Ted Afetane. potential conditions or up-to-date knowledge in the
With training from Orbis, he problems and provide with 1,867 participants Mongolian ophthalmology
became Cameroon’s first treatment before it is too from 125 countries, sector, I rely heavily on the
paediatric ophthalmologist. late. A child with a visual and gained 3,090 new training and mentorship
In 2017, he was given the impairment must receive Cybersight members. from Cybersight. Because
opportunity to advance his skills treatment before their of Cybersight, I can learn
aboard the Flying Eye Hospital. eighth birthday, or a We also completed our every day, non-stop from
The training he received has full recovery becomes first live surgical mentorship
been invaluable in helping him impossible. By focusing on through Cybersight in excellent mentors. ”
treat the many children in his screenings, eye exams and which a cataract surgery
country who desperately need early intervention, we can on a 5-year-old-girl in Dr. Ijilmurun,
his help. have a much greater impact Peru was managed in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
and reduce the need for real time by Volunteer
more costly treatments. Faculty in Indianapolis.


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