FREE CATARACT SURGERY CAMPS

According to the latest assessment, around 1.3 billion people have vision impairment worldwide and 36 million people are blind worldwide. About 90% of visually impaired people live in developing countries and about 80%of sight loss can be prevented or cured. Cataract is responsible for 51% of world blindness. Although cataracts can be surgically removed, barriers (such as poverty and unavailability of healthcare facilities) exist that prevent patients to access surgery. As the average human age has increased due to which people in the world live longer and the increasing population in Pakistan, the number of people with cataract in our country is anticipated to grow.

Al-Mustafa Welfare Society has been organizing Free Cataract Surgeries Camps throughout Pakistan since 2006. We have successfully organized 720 Free Cataract Surgery Camps (till 2019) throughout Pakistan especially in the suburban areas where health facilities are either not available or are simply insufficient. Also, the population is mostly very poor and are unable to afford even the simple visits to the doctor.

In these camps our surgeons examine the patients and perform free cataract surgeries in our mobile operation theater, patients are also provided free prescribed medicines and sunglasses.