NEWS ARCHIVE

19-24 December 2005: Village Eye Screening Field Trip, Melaya

The final Surya/Jenggala-funded mass eye screening for 2005 was held in Kaliakah, near Negara in west Bali. The YKI screening team joined up with the North Bali Mobile Eye Clinic, and over a four day period, screened 413 village people for eye problems. Twelve patients requiring cataract operations were identified and operated in the mobile eye clinic, and 291 free pairs of spectacles were issued.The teams also screened 696 children in six local primary schools, and issued 42 pairs of free spectacles.

15 December 2005: Donated hospital equipment to Amlapura Hospital

Amlapura Hospital, in the eastern part of Bali, was destroyed by an earthquake in January 1994, and has been rebuilt by the Government. The existing equipment in the hospital desperately needs replacing, so YKI/JFF has ‘adopted’ several wards in the hospital, which it will re-equip with modern, donated beds and other equipment. YKI made the first delivery of beds, children’s cots and incubators for premature babies to Amlapura Hospital on 15 December 2005.

Left: Condition of beds in the Amlapura Hospital.
Right: YKI’s technicians reassemble the hydraulic hospital beds at Amlapura Hospital

5-8 December 2005: Village Eye Screening Field Trip, Nusa Dua

The Conrad Hotel funded a mass eye screening for people in the villages and schools in the vicinity of the hotel. Over four days, the YKI Screening Team, in conjunction with a team from the Rumah Sakit Indera, checked the eyes of 284 adults, issuing 58 pairs of glasses. The team identified 17 people with cataracts, and 11 were operated in the South Bali Mobile Eye Clinic on-site, with 6 more complicated cases being referred to the hospital.The YKI Team also checked 1,290 primary school children and issued 63 pairs of glasses to those who needed them.

December 2005: Cleft lip and palate operations

Four children with cleft lips or palates were operated in December.

17-18 November 2005: Cleft lip and palate operations

With donated funds from Poppies Asia. The Smile Train and a private donor, Balinese surgeon, Dr Anon, operated two children with cleft lips and one with a cleft palate at the Puri Raharja Hospital. Balinese anaesthetist, Dr Wayan Sukra, donated his time and expertise free of charge to YKI to operate on these children from poor families.

9-19 November 2005: TB Training Session

Two of the volunteer TB specialists on the Consortium team carried out a total of 10 days of training to TB Wasors (field laboratory managers) in Bali. Dr Ivan Bastian from IMVS in Adelaide conducted a session on microscopy and laboratory protocol, and Dr Rick Stapledon from Royal Adelaide Hospital, conducted the DOTS Management/Treatment session. The TB Wasors were from the Bali Department of Health.

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