The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital returns to Zambia for a three-week training project in Lusaka coinciding with World Sight Day on October 12LUSAKA, Zambia, Sept. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Global eye care nonprofit, Orbis International, is kicking off a surgical training program in Zambia on board the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital - the world's only fully accredited ophthalmic teaching hospital on board a plane.

Orbis飞行眼科医院返回赞比亚，在2023年9月25日与赞比亚卢萨卡世界视力日同时在卢萨卡进行为期三周的培训项目/PRNewswire/--全球眼科护理非营利组织，Orbis International，奥比斯飞行眼科医院正在赞比亚开展外科培训计划-这是世界上唯一获得完全认可的飞机上眼科教学医院。

There, Orbis clinical staff and Volunteer Faculty (medical experts) will provide hands-on simulation and surgical training to eye care professionals from across Zambia. For the first time, Zambian ophthalmologists trained through Orbis-sponsored and other fellowships will work alongside Flying Eye Hospital staff and Volunteer Faculty to deliver simulation training to ophthalmology residents.

在那里，Orbis临床工作人员和志愿者（医学专家）将为来自赞比亚各地的眼保健专业人员提供动手模拟和外科培训。通过Orbis赞助和其他奖学金培训的赞比亚眼科医生首次将与飞行眼科医院工作人员和志愿者一起工作，为眼科居民提供模拟培训。

With continuing support from the Alcon Foundation and OMEGA, this collaboration will focus on improving adult and pediatric eye care in Zambia, where it's estimated that at least 4% of the population experiences blindness that could be avoided, and there exists only one ophthalmologist per 556,000 Zambians, leaving eye care needs largely unmet. .

在爱尔康基金会和欧米茄的持续支持下，这项合作将侧重于改善赞比亚的成人和儿科眼科护理，据估计至少有4%的人口失明是可以避免的，每556000人中只有一名眼科医生赞比亚人的眼保健需求基本上未得到满足。 .

Kapiya, four years old, has an eye exam by an Orbis-trained community health worker in Mufulira, Zambia.

四岁的卡皮亚（Kapiya）在赞比亚穆富利拉（Mufulira）接受了一名经过Orbis培训的社区卫生工作者的眼科检查。