Eye screening for Gianyar villagers

Eye screening for Gianyar villagers

DENPASAR: A team from the YKI and Indera Hospital recently
visited Pesraman Ida Pedanda Gunung, Blahbatuh, Gianyar, Bali.
The team was checking for eye problems, as part of the YKI's
regular outreach program to the villages of Bali.

What the team was most interested in was finding people who
had been blinded by cataracts. Thirteen people were identified
with cataracts during this particular screening.

YKI's Sight Restoration and Blindness Prevention Project has
been running in Bali since 1991, and has, to date, performed
sight-restoration operations on approximately 19,000 people.

All services from YKI, including the cataract surgery, are
offered free of charge to people in the lower socioeconomic
group. The organization works closely with government departments
of health, education and social affairs.

If you are able to help this organization, the website,
www.balieye.org, gives donation information on the HOW YOU CAN
HELP page. Donations to the organization can be made in
Indonesia. Donations are also tax-deductible in the United States
and in Australia.

YKI can be contacted via email at yki@indo.net.id, tel: 0361
270 812, or fax: 0361 287 707. --JP