Flying hospital 'Orbis'. Child being carried from the hospital plane 'Orbis' after an eye operation. 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. The plane is a DC-10,converted to house classrooms,examination rooms and an operating theatre. 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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