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Updated NRI doctor
(VAO) charity member made a record 850 eye examinations/day in India
London, May 01, 2007 NRI optician, Premal Patel, 32, team member of the Vision Aid Overseas (VAO) charity, West Sussex, UK performed and set up a record 850 eye examinations in a day in India. Dr. Patel said, "The best moment was when I prescribed glasses for an old lady who was virtually blind. She was overwhelmed. The whole trip was very rewarding." In March, he performed more than 3,600 tests in his two week stay in the Indian city of Bangalore. He will be going to Africa in December. Vision Aid Overseas works for a world in which everyone has access to eyecare and spectacles. Their mission is to examine the eyes of needy people in the developing world, to provide spectacles and to train people in those countries in eyecare skills. Vision Aid Overseas is a charity dedicated to helping people in the developing world whose lives are blighted by poor eyesight, particularly where spectacles can help. VAO works by sending teams of volunteer optometrists and dispensing opticians who set up clinics, screen large number of patients and provide appropriate spectacles. Many enter our clinics blind and leave about 20 minutes later able to see. Started in 1985, Vision Aid Overseas has provided 500,000 eye tests and given 250,000 people the ability to see with a pair of spectacles. Vision Aid Overseas currently works in the following countries: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Malawi, Sierra, Leone, Uganda and Zambia The charity has also worked in the following countries: Albania,
Armenia, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Estonia, Gambia, Jamaica, Kenya, Latvia,
Peru, Russia, Swaziland, Tanzania and Vietnam
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