Tuesday, September 15, 2009

World's only flying eye hospital

In this BBC news piece there is  a nice video of the inside of the Flying Eye Hospital , narrated by my friend, Hunter Cherwek, who is the medical director  of the  Flying Eye Hospital.
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On approaching the flying eye hospital, it looks like any of the other passenger jets on the runway waiting to take holidaymakers to exotic destinations.

But this DC-10 jet is exceptional - it houses the only airborne operating theatre for eye treatment in the world.

Its mission is to tackle avoidable sight loss and its charter reaches developing countries where 90% of the world's 45 million blind people live.

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