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The truck Eye Hospital NGO Motor Carrier Blue in Action, in collaboration with the Department of Employment, Civil Protection and Development Cooperation, who heads Hontoria Beatriz has created in order to operate in Africa and is heading to Lome, the Togolese capital .
Boarded the truck yesterday at the Port of Valencia and is now sailing towards their destination to visit four African countries to attend to patients with disorders of vision.
The hospital-truck has an operational capacity for 500 consultations daily with drug treatment and graduation and to perform 30 surgeries.
For it has a consultation room, anesthesia room, preoperative, operating room and store and has two support vehicles traveling the consultations carried out in villages and transported to the sick in need of surgery to the hospital.
The hospital has modern equipment for consultation, anesthesia, and surgical sterilization, which will carry out cataract operations with intraocular lens phacoemulsificator.
The City of Murcia is the largest external financier of medical vehicle, which also worked CajaMurcia, CAM and Caixa.
The Autonomous Community, for its part, intends to contribute to the financing of the expeditions.
Also in September, held a charity dinner and concert to raise allowed more than 2,500 euros.
The vehicle will travel Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso and Mali.
The work of Blue in Action in Togo has been very intense over the past three years, where he has developed a project to improve the ocular health of the population that has allowed restoring sight to over 400 blind people, besides trying to 4,000 patients with eye diseases.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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