ORBIS flying eye hospital to leave Stansted Airport for India this week

The world's only Flying Eye Hospital left London Stansted Airport after hundreds turned out to see how international sight-saving charity ORBIS, carries out its training in developing countries.
The aircraft is operated as part of the charity's global work, preventing avoidable blindness in the poorest communities of the world and leaves for its next mission in India next week.
The Flying Eye Hospital is a DC-10 aircraft converted into a state-of-the art training facility. ORBIS's medical volunteers - consultant ophthalmologists, anesthetists, and nurses - donate their time to transfer skills across continents.
The next flight that gives sight will be to India (leaving Stansted Airport Thursday September 17) where, ORBIS volunteers and local doctors will restore the sight of children like Richard. Richard is three years old and lives in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
He had a severe squint which affected his mobility and everyday life. The procedure to restore Richard's sight was not available when his mother heard that the ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital was landing she hoped this would be the moment that changed Richard's life forever.
14/09/09 Herald 24, UK

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Categories: Foreign Sep 2009