Hospital Blog February 2012

Feb222012
Cataracts and Banksy
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I’d like to use this blog to advertise the work of Pictures on Walls, our most recent supporters! Pictures on Walls is a company that supply high quality limited edition prints from the most popular contemporary street artists. Banksy comes to mind, doesn’t he? Well, they’ve recently opened up a shop in Commercial Street, named by the Guardian newspaper as one of the ten best shops in East London. This shop is the ONLY venue to buy a real Banksy screen print!

Check out this article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/may/03/london-shopping-trips

…and also their website:

www.picturesonwalls.com

We are most grateful to Pictures on Walls for their generous donation which has allowed us to purchase an IOL Master for our Anabta clinic.

An IOL Master is a machine that takes different measurements of the eye lens before performing cataract surgeries. In the oPt, adult cataract accounts for 62% of all cases of blindness. This is shocking because cataracts can be easily treated and with surgery sight can be restored. This machine will help us in our mission to treat patients with cataracts. Thanks to Pictures on Walls for recognising the dire need for this machine and for kindly helping us purchase it.

I have to say they are probably one of the funkiest supporters we have. I might just try to buy a Banksy for myself this weekend :)

Have a good one.

Feb152012
Life in Many Voices
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Very excited to inform you all that we are going to be on BBC Radio next weekend! Entitled ‘Life in Many Voices’ the programme will be transmitted on the BBC World Service on:

Sunday 25th Feb @ 19.05pm GMT
Monday 26th Feb : 11.05
Monday 27th Feb @ 02.05

Hope you all can tune into one of the dates.

It’s really exciting as it is the first time (in my memory at least) we have been on the BBC. We are confident this will increase our support base as new people tune in and listen to the amazing work we do. The show will feature patients as well as staff at the hospital. The production team visited various villages in the West Bank and have some very interesting stories for you. It’s a show you will not want to miss!