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Saving Sight Worldwide ORBIS (What is "ORBIS" (An international…
Saving Sight Worldwide
ORBIS
What is "ORBIS"
Means "eye'' in Latin
An international organization
Purpose
Preventing and curing blindness worldwide
Help the blind, giving them the chance to see the blue sky, the green grass, the red flowers, and the smiling faces of their relatives
How they work
Use ''Flying Eye Hospital''
An unusual airplane
Equipments
The most advanced equipment
Operating rooms
Reach out to remote areas and providing training for the doctors there
Mission
To help blind people see again
How
Give operations
Doctors on board give operation to some patients
A video camera sends clear pictures of the operation to the ground
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Problem
In places where the aircraft cannot land
solution
Orbis has training programs local hospitals
Join doctors from around the world to help the blind
effect
More than twenty million blind people have benefited from Orbis to date, and the number is still growing
Has permanent programs in several countries
Why we need Orbis
Problems in remote areas
The lack of well-trained doctors
Influences
75 percent of all blindness can be cured but they do not have the chance to get the medical treature
The loss of sight
Is a tragic blow to an individual
Has a great impact on his or her family
People feel hopeless
Orbis Taiwan
One of the fifteen Orbes International offices
A number of volunteer eye doctors from Taiwan have been working on board the Flying Eye Hospital