The first corneal graft ever performed in the Ivory Coast was successfully carried out by two Hadassah doctors who restored the sight of a 17-year-old blind girl, it was reported by the Hadassah Medical Organization. Prof. Hanan Zauberman and Dr. Uriel Sachs, of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center’s Department of Ophthalmology in Jerusalem, are presently on a tour of the Ivory Coast, Niger and Ethiopia to review the possibility of opening eye departments in these countries. Hadassah has already developed programs to provide eye services in Liberia, Tanzania, Malawi and Rwanda, by training African doctors and nurses in Jerusalem while Hadassah ophthalmologists establish clinics in these countries. As soon as the African doctors and nurses finish their training in Jerusalem, they go home and take over their own clinics, thereby replacing the Israelis.
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