Sir Lester Bird Medical Centre (SLBMC) recently held a successful Cataract Surgery Clinic, providing free life-changing surgeries to over 100 patients from Antigua and Barbuda.
The clinic, supported by the Ministry of Health, helps individuals who cannot afford cataract surgery.
Cataracts are a condition causing vision loss, and surgical treatment is necessary to restore sight.
Dr. Osama Dias, an ophthalmologist at SLBMC, aims to eradicate blindness due to cataracts and has already restored sight to many patients.
The hospital is committed to ensuring that financial constraints do not prevent people in the community from receiving needed cataract surgery.
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Great news for once.
How come Brixtonian say Molwyn Joseph is a failure. I guess Brix you need to read another good news from this Gaston Browne administration. Do you know it’s only people with money who can get to pay for this type of surgery? Just the other day a good friend of mine went overseas to have his cataract surgery. Apart from the cost of the surgery you have the airline cost and the hotel cost. And you need someone to travel with you. That is why lots of poor people just go blind in their old age. And I have this to say to our medical professionals; it should not be all about the money. You all need to give back to the country. Yes, your education wasn’t free as for the university part. But surely primary and secondary education is free or greatly subsidized. And many times, you got scholarship at the university. Which is because of contributions from others. I urge our medical professionals to stop the greediness and do not let everything be about money. Some years ago, the Chinese came here with a medical ship and did thousands of cataract surgery and so did the Cubans and the Venezuelans. Give back to your people. God will reward the cheerful giver. You have been given a gift from God, at least give him his ten percent by addressing the need of the poor.
This cataract surgery provision was done several times under the UPP.
Give me z’n aspirin. Such surgery was never ever possible during the UPP. Daniel didn’t even show up for work. All the equipment at MSJMC were defect. It’s only when Molwyn took leadership of that hospital he invested millions to have all the equipment working again. Then came the Chinese and donated all the equipment for eye care and then the Cubans and thereafter the Venezuelan
Try another lie. But not this one. We are not so forgetful.
An interesting and very welcoming development.
Credit where credit is due @ From The Sideline, but as you well an’ know free cataract operation is ‘inter alia’, also a completely different issue to mandatory TRIAL mRNA vaccines and the continuing implementation of banned and DANGEROUS AstraZeneca.
Are you just playing daft? Or are you really daft? Tell mi boss … PLEASE!
REMEMBER, BRIXTONIAN NEVER HIDES FROM THE REAL ISSUES. NEVER!!!
The patients were grateful for the surgery..however..
What is limiting our very own Dr. Osama Dias from performing these cataract surgeries at the hospital? Why does he have to wait for the ministry of health appointed Dr. Bhola out of Trinidad to help our locals who are suffering from cataracts?
The reason for these questions is the fact that many of the persons who had their sight reduced to almost zero had to wait for several months before Dr. Bhola arrived from Trinidad. I personally know someone who could not work and pay his bills and had to be supported by relatives until he had his surgery just over a week ago.
Why do these patients have to remain prisoners in their homes until Dr. Bhola gets here? What is limiting Dr. Osama Dias from doing these surgeries?
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