Saturday 30 March 2013

Kenya: Shortage of Cornea for Transplant

http://www.wfsj.org/files/file/resources/documents/ScienceAfrica/sia20.pdf

Kenya: Shortage of Cornea for Transplant
By Wairimu Nyambura
ScienceAfrica Correspodent

Jovial and full of life,14 year old Maureen Wanjiru leans on her mother and playfully at the lobby of Dr Jyotee Trivedy, senior ophthalmologist and head of medical services at the Lions SightFirst Eye Hospital
in Nairobi, Kenya. Her right eye tightly shut, she brushes off the specks of tears pushing against her closed eye with the back of her hand. Two weeks earlier, she received her first corneal transplant. . read .more http://www.wfsj.org/files/file/resources/documents/ScienceAfrica/sia20.pdf

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