23-26 April 2004:
Ophthalmological Teaching
Visiting glaucoma specialist, Dr Phil House
from Perth, Western Australia, is conducting a Symposium and
Workshop on Glaucoma for the ophthalmologists in Bali and
Lombok. The workshop will be conducted from 23-26 April at
the Eye Department of the Rumah Sakit Indera in Denpasar,
where the Foundation conducts its Sight Restoration and Blindness
Prevention Program.
21 April 2004:
JFF Board Appointment
 Mr
Robert Foord (Bob) was appointed as a member of Board of The
John Fawcett Foundation at its last meeting. Bob's professional
business life has been focussed mainly on the tourism, travel
and property development industries, and his involvement in
humanitarian projects has encompassed many years. He and his
wife, Sheryn, are enthusiastic supporters of the Foundation
and have been very active in raising funds in South Australia,
their home state.
20 April 2004:
Colostomy Operation
The foundation has organized a colostomy
operation for 3-year-old Wayan Sandi who lives on the edge
of the volcanic crater near Kintamani to reconnect his bowel,
giving him normal function. This operation, performed by Dr
Jaya Kesuma in Rumah Sakit Puri Rahaja in Denpasar, is being
paid for by funds raised by Richard Todd, from Aquarius Productions,
Margaret River, Western Australia.
15-16 April 2004:
Cleft Lip and Palate Operations
  
Dr Tim Cooper, plastic surgeon from Perth WA,
and Dr Jaya Kesuma from Bali, operated nine children who had
cleft lips and/or palates in the Rumah Sakit Puri Rahaja in
Denpasar. The hospital offered its beds at a discount rate
to these patients from poor families, and the anaesthetist,
Dr Sukra, gave his time free of charge, thus reducing the
cost to the generous donors who offered to cover the expenses
for these operations.
27-31 March 2004:
Field Trip to North-east Bali
  
At the end of March, the Foundation ran a mass screening and
cataract program in the isolated north-eastern coast of Bali,
in the village of Amed, which six major individual donors
to the Foundation attended. Hundreds of people were screened
in the village banjar in Amed, and in the Emerald Hotel in
Tulamben (with the enthusiastic support of the owner, Tom
Inoue), and 35 adults with operable cataracts were identified.
Ten of these were operated in the mobile eye clinic immediately,
and the others were waitlisted for a later trip.
Visiting Australian optometrist, George Georgis, and volunteer,
Sonja Trienekens from The Netherlands, examined children in
three local primary schools in the Amed area. Those who required
spectacles were issued with glasses donated from Australia
on the spot, and those requiring treatment were referred to
the Eye Hospital. In the same area, with assistance from Patrick
Scott, of the Rotary Club of Seminyak, several children afflicted
with cleft lips and/or palates were examined and arrangements
made for operations.
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