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IHH performing 100,000 cataract operations in Africa
The IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation is planning to perform 100,000 cataract operations in Sahara countries such as Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somali, Ghana, Togo and Benin within a year. Philanthropic people can contribute to the campaign launched with the slogan “If You Help They will See” by meeting cost of one operation, which is 100 new Turkish liras The IHH, which has been helping the poor, the aggrieved and refugees through socially-oriented projects in 100 different countries and regions worldwide, is preparing to launch a new and wide-ranging project in Africa: African Cataract Project.

Africa is home to 19 out of the 22 poorest countries worldwide and is underdeveloped in sanitary infrastructure as well. In many African countries, where a child dies from preventable diseases every second, life expectancy is not more than 40 years. Especially in Sahara countries such as Niger, Chad, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ethiopia there is a doctor per 40,000 people and millions of people have never seen a doctor.           

In Niger, one of the countries where the IHH will perform cataract operations, there are currently 11 doctors who can perform cataract operation. This figure shows that there is one oculist per 1.2 million people in the country with 13-million population, which indicates the seriousness of the condition.        

Cataract is the cause of 10 million blindness cases in Africa. At least five million Africans have to suffer cataract due to economic deficiencies and problems with sanitary infrastructure, although they could be brought out of dark with 10-15-minute simple operations.    

The IHH is extending help to Africa, where tens of thousands new blindness cases occur, to perform cataract operations. The IHH is planning, with the cooperation of the Solidarity Foundation, to perform 100,000 cataract operations in Sahara countries such as Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somali, Ghana, Togo and Benin within a year. Operations will commence in a short time after infrastructural preparations have been completed in the at issue countries. People who will be brought to the light are likely to speed up social development in Africa.    
 
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