WCF Ometepec
<p class="font_8">WCF has been sending teams to Ometepec, Mexico every November since 1970. Although our teams perform more than 200 surgeries each November, there remains a backlog of people needing cataract surgery. In 2003 we began sending an additional team in the spring. The people are always lined up waiting for us in hopes they will receive sight-restoring surgery.</p>
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<p class="font_8">This February we sent a 28 member team to the Hospital de la Amistad (Hospital of Friendship) in Ometepec. This small hospital services the people in Ometepec and nearby towns in the Costa Chica region of Guerrero, Mexico. Our team provided 235 surgeries: 172 cataracts, 57 pterygiums, 1 plastic and 5 YAGS. We also distributed more than 800 reading, prescription and sunglasses.</p>
<p class="font_8">WCF has been sending teams to Ometepec, Mexico every November since 1970. Although our teams perform more than 200 surgeries each November, there remains a backlog of people needing cataract surgery. In 2003 we began sending an additional team in the spring. The people are always lined up waiting for us in hopes they will receive sight-restoring surgery.</p>
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<p class="font_8">This February we sent a 28 member team to the Hospital de la Amistad (Hospital of Friendship) in Ometepec. This small hospital services the people in Ometepec and nearby towns in the Costa Chica region of Guerrero, Mexico. Our team provided 235 surgeries: 172 cataracts, 57 pterygiums, 1 plastic and 5 YAGS. We also distributed more than 800 reading, prescription and sunglasses.</p>