Eye surgery. Surgeons performing an operation on a patient's eye, in the operating theatre on board the 'flying hospital' plane Orbis. Project Orbis i

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Eye surgery. Surgeons performing an operation on a patient's eye, in the operating theatre on board the 'flying hospital' plane Orbis. Project Orbis is a US/UK charity that instructs Third World doctors and surgeons in ophthalmolgy (eye medicine). Conditions that are treated by surgeons on board Orbis include cataracts, glaucoma, corneal opacities and retinal problems. Although it is primarily a teaching facility, Orbis has treated blindness in more than 23,000 patients in Africa, Asia and the Americas, since its first mission in 1982. Photographed in Krygystan (Kyrgiz Republic) in Central Asia.

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