Revision
Thousands of patients in Egypt suffer from eye diseases that lead to vision loss, while they can be saved through vision restoration operations that restore their ability to see and practice their lives normally, and the vision restoration program aims to save the lives of patients with various visual diseases, most notably: cataract, glaucoma, lens implantation, retinal repair, strabismus, and this is to enable them to improve their vision, which helps them perform in their daily normal lives efficiently and safely.
Types of vision reconstructions:
1. Cataract: It is a state of opacity that makes the lens of the eye slowly cloudy, and clouding the lens of the eye does not cause pain, but leads to poor vision over time that affects the lens of the eye, and makes it not work efficiently, which leads to poor vision, and the most famous symptoms are:
- Blurry or blurred vision.
- Difficulty seeing colors.
- Increased sensitivity to light.
- See halos around the lights.
- Decline in the ability to night vision.
2. Blue water:
A condition that affects the eye and makes it look blue or gray in color, which is a change in the color of the cornea (the transparent part that covers the colored part of the eye), and it occurs due to the formation of a new layer of tissue in the cornea, and its most famous symptoms are:
- Progressive loss of lateral vision.
- Blurry vision.
- Colorful arc around the lights.
3. Lens implantation:
Lens implantation is a medical procedure used to treat cataracts or to correct visual impairment, and this procedure involves removing the natural opaque lens and replacing it with a transparent artificial lens to save the patient's eye and give him the ability to practice his daily life properly.
Achievements of the Egyptian Cure Bank in the Revision Program
- Number of vision reorders: 18.446 operations.
- Number of patients benefited: 17.705 patients.