Haidar's Blog from Iraq
Monday 26 July 2010
It’s pretty hot here, we hit 53 C in Najaf last week and the electricity is a nuisance. On the clinic front, the work is slow but steady, not aided by this hot summer we’re having. We see about 50-75 patients a week and the numbers are gradually increasing. We’ll be starting an advertising campaign, inshallah, to [...]
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Fundraising News
Thank You to Iraq Relief»A big thank you to Iraq Relief who raised over £500 for the Foundation at their recent London charity picnic. Particular note of thanks to organiser Thuha Jabbar and to all the picnic-ers who attended and helped raise such an impressive sum.
The upgraded clinic is seeing more and more patients coming through the doors as [...]
General News
Cataract Lessons in Kathmandu»The Foundation funded Haidar to be trained in small incision cataract surgery at the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology in Kathmandu, part of the Nepal Eye Program – a non-profit NGO that provides community-based treatment research and training. Small incision cataract surgery is a new, safe and inexpensive technique which does not require the use of state-of-the-art equipment and is thus ideal to roll [...]
News from Iraq
First Patients Treated»Opened to the Najaf public on 1 January 2009, the clinic proved highly popular with patients attending from as far afield as Baghdad, Al-Nasiriya and Karbala. This is one of the first patients treated in the newly equipped clinic on New Year’s Day.
