Cameroon Boy Can See Again, Thanks to Israeli Eye Doctors

[Jerusalem Post] Judy Siegel-Itzkovich - The head of the ophthalmology department at the central hospital in Yaounde, Cameroon's capital, recently contacted Dr. Itamar Yeshurun and Dr. Hagai Avizemer of the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon and asked for help with a four-year-old named Salin who was blind in one eye and had only minimal sight in the other. The boy's sight was restored in Israel with a transplanted cornea donated by the Vision Share cornea bank in the U.S.


2008-12-10 08:00:00

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