The eye charts that Israeli doctors are using to help the people of Cameroon.
A team of two medical ophthalmologists are in Cameroon since yesterday to perform eye surgeries. Each year, since the year 2000, Israel through its ambassador to Cameroon, launches the eye campaign in a given health center. The exercise, the fifth of its kind, was launched during his first and second visits to the Laquintiny Hospital in Douala. From 2003 till date, the beneficiaries have been patients at the Central Hospital in Yaounde.
Dr Eedy Metzer and Rina Leibo from the RAMBAM University Hospital Center in Israel, will be in the country for two weeks. During this period, patients suffering from eye problems will have free surgeries and check-ups. An ordinary eye surgery is carried out at FCFA 100,000.
I anxiously await the Arab and Muslim equivalent of this outreach effort.
Why should the Arabs do anything about this, Meryl? You are conveniently forgetting that if it weren’t for the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory they wouldn’t have these eye diseases. Everything that goes wrong is Israel’s fault, after all.