As they have been doing for many years, a group of ophthalmologists and volunteers from the US traveled recently to Sabana Yegua (Dominican Republic) to carry out a campaign to care for people with visual problems.
Sixteen years ago, a group of ophthalmologists from Kenosha (Wisconsin, USA) traveled for the first time to the parish of La Sagrada Familia in Sabana Yegua (Dominican Republic), which is run by the Community of Saint Paul, to carry out a medical campaign there. No one could have imagined, at that time, that this was the beginning of a relationship that has lasted until today.
From February 6 to 14, 2023 we had the sixteenth ophthalmological campaign. On this occasion, seventeen volunteers (including ophthalmologists, assistants, translators) traveled to Sabana Yegua. They were able to visit and offer treatment to 785 people. The patients were from Sabana Yegua as well as from the surrounding rural communities that make up the La Sagrada Familia parish. During the year, some fifty people who need surgery (cataracts, pterygium, etc.) will be monitored and will be operated on in the coming months.
From here we want to offer our heartfelt gratitude to our friends from Kenosha, who are a beacon of hope for all the people in our communities in the Dominican Republic in need of help in treating their eyesight.
