Volunteer of Anouar Association on the event of Cataract eye surgery Caravan in the Ait Faska El Haouz Marrakech organized by Anouar Association of Development and Solidarity. Made up of specialists, nurses, and volunteers from the Association, these medical caravans aim to combat health inequalities and facilitate access to healthcare for the disadvantaged community of Ait Faska.
For a number of years, Morocco has experienced a worrying increase in the number of people with eye problems. Thousands of people are screened each year for eye problems.
Unfortunately, the country suffers from both a shortage of specialized staff with an inadequate distribution of existing staff and a glaring lack of healthcare equipment.
NGO such as Anouar association makes free access to healthcare such as this program. In the province of Al-Haouz, hundreds of residents from the community of Ait Faska is taking advantage of the free eye care, in partnership with Moroccan Association for Medical Solidarity and in cooperation with the regional directorate of the Ministry of Health, local authorities and the Moroccan Red Crescent in the region of Marrakech.
This ophthalmological caravan initiated by the Anouar Association, allowed the community of Ait Faska, to be examined and treated the visual acuity failures of the residents.
Consultations and treatments are free during the awareness campaigns. According to Mohamed Dekkak, President of anouar Association, the residents should seize this opportunity to treat their eye problems since its free of charge.
Blindness in Morocco: a structural problem
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cataracts are the leading cause of blindness in the world. To effectively combat reversible blindness due to cataracts, 3,000 cataract operations per million inhabitants should be performed each year! A challenge that several countries do not take up, including Morocco.
Indeed, for a population of around 33 million Moroccans, almost 100,000 cataracts must be operated each year. In reality, official figures indicate that only about half of the cases with this eye disease are operated on by the public and private sectors combined. This alarming deficit in terms of cataract operations today concerns around 50,000 cases each year, awaiting a therapeutic surgical act!
The lack of generalized medical cover and the high cost of surgical treatment constitute the major obstacle to the care of patients, especially the most disadvantaged.
Cataracts: A plague among the poorest
Cataracts are a visual disease that is characterized by an opaque (less transparent) lens, which prevents light from passing through the eye, resulting in blurred vision.
The cataract occurs with age, mainly because of aging. It must be operated imperatively, to avoid any risk of losing vision.
Only surgery can cure cataracts. It is a trivialized and proven operation, through the technique of phacoemulsification extraction: the cataract is emulsified and aspirated by a small orifice, then the opaque lens is replaced by a transparent artificial lens, which will allow you to cover a clear and clear vision.
This technique is a real revolution. It is done under local anesthesia, lasts only a few minutes and allows rapid visual recovery (in a few hours) and complete healing in a month.
This medico-social initiative is part of the Anouar Association’s program to combat cataracts and bring health services closer to people in rural and mountainous areas in precarious situations to better meet their needs and improve their accessibility to medical services, through the intensification of visits field of mobile health units for eye consultations and surgeries relating to eye diseases.
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