The Jorge Alió Foundation, dedicated to make prevention campaigns and surgical interventions in disadvantaged countries with the intention of eradicating blindness and preventing eye diseases, are currently developing the Nouadhibou Vision project. The Foundation has the non-profit collaboration of organizations such as Visió sense frontiers (Vision without borders), Canhel Sahel Medical Cooperation or Stop Blindness.
Recently, three Alicante ophthalmologists have moved to examine about five thousand school children in Noaudhibou (Mauritania) and have detected that almost 12% of them have visual problems, small that have myopia of up to 14 and 16 diopters. Next May they will return to Noadhibou taking the children who need them 145 corrective glasses, according to Isabel Signes, Calpe ophthalmologist, these glasses can cost in Alicante about 150 euros, while in Nouadhibou they can amount to 400 euros.
Eight of the children who underwent the review suffer serious conditions such as congenital cataracts and strabismus, these require surgical intervention and will put a solution.
The work of this Foundation, very commendable by the way, has not ended here, they aim to serve 16,000 children in principle, so in October they will return to try to solve the visual problems of the schoolchildren who reside there.
