The Gambia – Swansea Vision 2020 Eye Link

A team of 8 professionals from Swansea visited The Gambia from the 11th to 18th November. The team consists of David Laws, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Stella Elliott, Link Co-ordinator, Suzanne Martin, Orthoptist, Susan Williams, Theatre Sister, Jatinder Parmar, Clinical Pharmacist, Constantin Magurean, Medical Engineer, Martin Wasik, Ophthalmologist and Elinor Laws, Student. Please click here to read Elinor’s blog . Click [...]

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The Third Annual Gambia-Swansea Vision 2020 Link Quiz night held in Blackpill Community Hall was a huge success! £678 was raised for the link! Click here to read more…

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At a recent (June 2011) meeting members of the Rotary Club of Swansea heard from Stella Elliott and David Laws of the links established between the Eye Department of Singleton Hospital, Swansea and the Regional Eye Care Centre in Banjul, Gambia. As a result the outgoing President of Swansea Rotary Club, Andrew Bellamy, decided to [...]

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At the end of last year, Garry Merrell from the Sensory Services Team at Morfydd House and his brother, Martin,  cycled the length of the UK to raise money for charity.  They both cycled 1060 miles from Lands End to John O’Groats in just ten days and raised over £900. Well done, Garry and Martin!  Click here to read [...]

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In November 2010 the fourth visit to The Gambia took place. The team consisted of Stella Elliott – link coordinator, Mike Austin – Ophthalmologist, Paul Lawrance – medical physics, Bethan Edwards – pharmacist and Sue Williams – Ophthalmic theatre nurse.  Click here to read Sue’s blog! Click here to read Bethan’s blog!

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Mrs Stella Elliott presenting an opthalmic A and B mode ultrasound machine to Mrs Isatou Jobe and Dr Patricia Wade of SZRECC.  This equipment was kindly donated by Spectrum Ophthalmics UK and will be used to examine eyes blind with cataract prior to surgery and in calculating the best power of lens implant for individual [...]

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We were delighted to receive a cheque for £305 from the Oxwich community in December.  The money was raised for the link during the annual Harvest Supper and was presented to Suzanne Martin and Cheryl Madeira-Cole at a Christmas Carol Service. Cheryl and Suzanne were invited to this enjoyable musical event by David Laws, also of the link [...]

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The Barn dance on Saturday October 9th in Reynoldston Village Hall for The Gambia-Swansea Vision 2020 Link was a rip roaring success!  Click here for details!

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We were delighted to be invited speak at the above event.  Click here to view the presentation we gave. (1.5MB PDF file).

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Well done and thank you to Judy Elphick who has hand made flower brooches to raise £27.50 towards The Gambia-Swansea Vision 2020 Eye Link.

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