{"id":3450,"date":"2016-06-04T10:59:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T09:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2016-06-04T10:59:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T09:59:18","slug":"mass-cataract-surgery-camp-in-vavuniya-315-0406-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/?p=3450","title":{"rendered":"Mass Cataract Surgery Camp in Vavuniya 31\/5 – 04\/06 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

We would like to inform that we have successfully completed our mass cataract surgery\u00a0camp on 3rd June and the surgeons from India and\u00a0Singapore have\u00a0restored eye sight, at least in one eye, to 486 patients<\/b>. There were many patients who came blind and returned home being able to see the world after long time. When many of them were thanking us, the surgeons and the donors, they couldn’t control their emotions and were in tears. The patients were full of praise for all those involved in the camp. It was very touching and heart-warming to see their happiness after their eyesights were restored. It is very difficult to describe this feeling by words.\u00a0Many of them come from very poor background and have been waiting\u00a0for\u00a0months and years\u00a0to restore their eyesights.\u00a0They told us\u00a0that they couldn’t do the surgeries due to their financial situation and that\u00a0they have now undergone the surgery because of the free\u00a0camp organised by Assist RR in partnership with Vision 2020, Sri Lanka, The Vision Mission, Singapore, and Rotary Club of Mullaitivu. Thanks to our kind hearted donors, 486 elderly and vulnerable people are now able to see the world. The donors are as follows:<\/p>\n

1. Kaarai Welfare Society through Enlightenment Circle of UK – 100 surgeries – Majority from Mullaitivu district;<\/strong><\/address>\n
2. Gods Own Children Foundation and Anbalayam both from Australia – 100 surgeries – Majority from Mannar district;<\/strong><\/address>\n
3. Funded in Memory of late Mr Vigneswararajah Rajaratnam from Kondavil & Toronto through Assist RR – 100 surgeries – from Kilinochchi district;<\/strong><\/address>\n
4. Solihull Junior School, West Midland, UK – 100 surgeries –\u00a0Vavuniya district;<\/strong><\/address>\n
5. Funded in Memory of late Miss Maheswary Velauthm, attorney at law, Karaveddy, through Assist RR – 86 Surgeries – Anuradhapura district.<\/strong>
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Assist RR have now organised, with the support of many organisations, and\u00a0completed more than 2100 surgeries in Sri Lanka. In addition to organising these camps, Assist RR have also funded a part of the 2100 surgeries.\u00a0We are hoping that The Vision Mission, in partnership with Assist RR,\u00a0will continue to provide surgeons to\u00a0help the needy in Sri Lanka. We\u00a0would like to thank all the donors as listed above, the surgeons, The Vision Mission, Vision 2020, Rotary Club of Mullaitivu, wonderful staff of Vavuniya General Hospital, sisters from Colombo eye hospital, and many others who have made this surgery\u00a0camp a very successful one.<\/p>\n

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We would like to inform that we have successfully completed our mass cataract surgery\u00a0camp on 3rd June and the surgeons from India and\u00a0Singapore have\u00a0restored eye sight, at least in one eye, to 486 patients. There were many patients who came … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3463,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions\/3463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}