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Eye Camp Treats the Poor and Blind in Northeastern Afghanistan

By AAN Staff
april 30, 2004  09:14 am
Eye Camp Treats the Poor and Blind in Northeastern Afghanistan
Metroland writer Travis Durfee spent the past month taking bucket baths, sleeping on mats and eating lamb kabob as he traveled throughout the Central Asian nation of Afghanistan. In the small city of Kunduz, he observed the crush of patients hoping for an appointment with an eye-doctor's assistant during a two-week camp run by the National Organization for Ophthalmic Rehabilitation. An estimated 2 percent of the country's population is blind, many of them from treatable conditions.
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