$7M in eye care equipment donated to public hospital

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From left: Dr George Norton and Dr Arlene Bobb-Semple, accepting the equipment which is worth $7.5 million, from National Project Manager of Eyecare Guyana Charles Vandyke at the Georgetown Hospital.
From left: Dr George Norton and Dr Arlene Bobb-Semple, accepting the equipment which is worth $7.5 million, from National Project Manager of Eyecare Guyana Charles Vandyke at the Georgetown Hospital.

Eyecare Guyana, through a European Union project, yesterday donated over $7 million in equipment to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s Ophthalmology Department to help stop blindness by 2020.

National Project Manager of Eyecare Guyana Charles Vandyke briefly explained that the project was long in coming and it took a lot of effort to see its completion.

He said that there are more donations to come, while adding that