In the last year, Muanema Fakira, his 1-year-old daughter Sumaya'nın's eyes saw a strange thing. The left eye was cloudy. Gled in the sun with interest or glow. While the problem continued, Ms. Fakira made tours on health clinics in Mozambican. Doctors said they could not help.
But Ms. Fakira, now 2, knew someone who knows the one that could buy Sumaya, which is 100 miles away from 100 miles.
Family, Dr. Ishaq Vasco also traveled to the city of Quelimane, which was investigating Sumaya's eyes and diagnosed a congenital cataracts and quickly diagnosed with a congenital.
Mrs. Fakira approached suspicion – cataracts are for older people, he said. The doctor also explained that Gama could cause cataracts in children after an infection or short period of birth. The situation is especially concerned, because vision problems affect the development of a child's physical function. But the good news said that this could be resolved by a simple operation, one can be resolved by a operation a week at the Central Hospital.
This was especially lucky for Sumaya, because Dr. GAMA is one of the only three pediatric ophthalmologists in Mozambique in Mozambique.
Sumaya conducted his operation in November, and a day later he went home, he was already healed. The doctor was also pleased to see him as soon as he was still young before he had permanent damage.
Over the past few years, his colleagues and colleagues were a sign that Sumaya's parents asked for help from the medical system for an eye problem – remove a curse of a traditional healer or wizard.
When Sumaya was taken care of, it was a long and expensive trip, but he helped his life relatively quickly for a problem that could break his life. Ideally, his cataract will be stained by Mama in birth.
“I believe we can repel this problem slowly by moving forward,” said Dr. Da gama.
In Mozambique, as in most African Africa, vision problems are so low, and so few children are very small, although there are very few things that can be treated.
A global commission for eye health in 2021 declare this There were 510 million people in the world, 90 percent of them, in low and middle-income countries, ungenerated vision. That is, they could not see properly because There was no glasses.
The results are very large: children who have a loss of vision in these countries are much less. A study learns for those who read in school, not adjusted vision problems unfinished as peers with normal vision.
It is so limited due to the lack of treatment to acquire treatment, unable to unable to unite vision to famous employees. Children are not displayed for the loss of vision and parents and teachers do not understand the simple reasons for the best eye problem to distract, physical coordination and behavioral problems.
There are only 20 ophthalmologists in the Mozambique, before six twenty years. Almost all is located in the capital Maputo in the south.
The doctor also completed his education in India in 2017 and established a clinic in the South African Ocean Coastline in half of the city. However, according to surprise, he saw very little patients in the first year. No one discovered that he was not sent to him, because medical staff did not recognize the treated eye diseases. He began a trip to local clinics to inform medical workers and to provide solutions.
Then he met with philanthropic light for the world, which completed the trainings specializing in child care in Tanzania. Teachers, community health workers, traditional healers and local leaders, how to observe vision problems and prepared a broadcast program to appeal to the New Ophthalmology Chamber at Queelimane Hospital.
Now several times a year, a mobile clinic has a mobile clinic to small communities to make transactions about children with each other, cataracts, glaucoma or strabismus (false eyes).
Cataracts cause about half of the irresistible blindness in the children of Mozambic; They can be genetic or as a result of trauma (like a stick or stone in the eye) or an untreated eye infection.
During the input trips, the doctor will also be able to perform simple operations and conditions for other health workers. “Not every president is not an operational problem: we can train within a week, how two weeks, we will be used on a cataract,” he said. “But how to determine the children in need of transactions.”
Mozambique is trying to establish awareness about the Ministry of Health, vision problems and refrigent mistakes, a pair of glasses are the change of life-changing interference.
Glasses or simple operations that keep children at school can change the future for their families and country as a whole. “If your children are less educated or less skill,” the future of the economy is affected, “he said.
Guelimane, Dr. GAMA also sees retinblastoma, retina cancer. When patients come enough early, they can save their lives, if not their eyes.
Camilo Rosario brought his daughter 300 kilometers 300 kilometers (about 185 miles) to his daughter, 3, 3, to the clinic. There was a tumor that caused the pain that came out of his eyes. Mr. Rosario said he began to complain about his eyes a few weeks ago. The doctor will also work quickly to remove the tumor and he was afraid to be in the brain of the disease.
Grace rescued from the first operation to adhere to his father with a large bandage around his head. The doctor also came to him late, as Gama was afraid; He died in early January.
Aminata Cabara was shown in the middle school with his classmates last year and was surprised to learn that it was myopical. After receiving glasses, the school was significantly easier, and his prices soon improved. Now he said he would continue at school and hopes to become a lawyer.
The screen of older children is easy; The doctor also coaxing that the little ones are smaller than the small ones for what Gama said. They rarely look at them where they need eye exams. Eyedrops, equipment, even white coats, can be all the fearful. He said smiling and distracted by removing coat when necessary.
“I like the hard things,” he said.