Fundació Ramon Marti i Bonet contra la ceguera

Projects

The Foundation is currently working on an ophthalmology project in the Hospital of Kalyandurg, located in Anantapur, inside the Andhra Pradesh region of India, one of the most deprived of the country.

We are providing the Hospital of Kalyandurg with several apparatus and instruments required to start the surgical activity of an operating theatre.

The service has a properly equipped medical examination room, a room with a YAG laser and an operating theatre. This service has to cover the ophthalmology needs of a town of over three million inhabitants. To date more than 400 ophthalmology patients have been examined in the Hospital of Kalyandurg.

At the same time we are assisting with the training of the local medical staff. The Foundation sends medical committees to the Hospital of Kalyandurg on a regular basis in order to diagnose, treat, operate and prevent all those blind cases that are avoidable, especially among the child population of the area.

We are currently planning to start another ophthalmology project in Peru soon with the same objectives and characteristics.

Objectives

With our mission to fight against blindness and to improve the general visual health of people with sight pathologies. The Ramon Martí i Bonet Against Blindness Foundation has the following objectives:

Provide direct ophthalmology care in international cooperation health projects, and also through the cooperation with other non-profit organisations.

Create, maintain and supervise ophthalmology services in those areas in the world with lack of them.

Examine patients for free and cover the financial costs of medical treatments, surgery procedures and glasses.

Alleviate and avoid the state of blindness in all those medical cases where is possible to do so and establish a child blindness prevention programme.

Train the local medical staff and contribute with new specialised technical knowledge.

Provide the local medical centres with the necessary medical instruments and materials for the ophthalmology practice.

Create a Telemedicine system. Telemedicine is a distance medicine service, which includes both the diagnosis and treatment of patients, as the distance medical training. It provides the following services:

To inform and to raise awareness on the public opinion about the precarious ophthalmology situation in the most deprived countries.