During the general mission in February, PazSalud screens potential candidates for cataract or pterygium surgery at our annual eye surgery mission. This year in May we will be working out of the National Hospital in Cojutepque, a town close to San Pedro Perulapan where the majority of our patients live.
On Sunday, March 16th we had a meeting with our patients to talk about the process, the surgery, the requirements and to address their many questions and concerns. Last year we found that having this meeting dramatically increased participation in the surgeries. A special issue this year is that Cojutepeque Hospital requires our patients to have a series of pre-exams in order to determine their fitness for surgery.
Yesenia, our local volunteer coordinator, organized the meeting. We brought in Don Lito, a former PazSalud patient from San Rafael Cedros who received cataract surgery at Cojutepque Hospital in 2011, to talk about his experience and answer specific patient questions.
Rosa Aguiar, a community organizer from Comasagua who helped register the surgery patients and who will work with us in May during the mission, talked about the process of prepping and having surgery and the follow-up care.
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