Qatar Charity (QC)’s medical teams have implemented specialised medical initiatives under the “Warding off Calamity" campaign.
These initiatives have had a direct and significant impact in Ghana, where the teams succeeded in performing numerous eye surgeries and cochlear implant operations, restoring sight and hearing for the patients most in need.
This was carried out as part of the “Night 27 Challenge”, in which donors raced to help put an end to the suffering and pain of patients in several countries around the world.
The QC teams began implementing an eye-care campaign for a group of patients in Accra, the capital of Ghana.
They carried out early medical screening for a number of eye patients, selected those who required surgery, and then commenced the ongoing procedures in recent days for a large number of them.
Al-Hajj Mohammed Idris, one of the eye patients who benefited from treatment under the “Alleviate Calamity” campaign, said that Qatar Charity had done a wonderful job by helping the blind and those suffering from eye problems to see and return to life once again.
With the participation of senior physicians whom Qatar Charity was keen to bring in from outside Ghana cochlear implant surgeries were performed for children with hearing loss.
These are specialised procedures and are rare in Ghana.
Qatar Charity also took this opportunity to train ear, nose and throat (ENT) doctors so that these operations can be localised within the country, eliminating the need to bring doctors from abroad in the future.