MIRACLE OF SIGHT

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MIRACLE OF SIGHT The case of Pang Meng-liang

• RCKNs Vision Screening in Guangxi Dec 2006
• Picked out Pang Meng-liang, a student at Loong
  Yan Primary School
• Age 9
• Teachers very concern
• Going blind but why?
• Help needed for mobility from brothers and
  classmates

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• Vision
• Finger counting only (legally blind)
• Examination with the ophthalmoscopy
• cataract (both eyes)

• Teachers said
• Parents said girl was very sick a few years back
• Not sure, but vision got worse after recovery
  from sickness, according to the parents

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Follow-up with Duans United Front

• Free cataract surgeries available in big towns in
  China
• Requested Mr Li to arrange for Meng-liang
• (Email from Winnie in early Feb 2007)
• Mr Li informed us that there was a long queue
  (over 200) for free cataract surgery

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Club Assembly 23th March 2007

• Agreed to sponsor Meng-liang to have a cataract
  surgery asap
• Expected cost HK10,000 (Rotarian Tommy donated
  2000)

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Reports from Winnie on Meng-liangs case

• Preliminary assessment
• March 5th
• Cataract Surgeries
• April 10th
• Meng-liang accompanied by her father
• Discharged
• April 20th
• Both visits, Jimmy and Winnie from Habitat
  International were at the hospital, helping
  Meng-liang and her Dad, registering and paying
  the bills etc. No accompanying people from Duan
  United Front.

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Meng-liang with her Dad at the hospital.
Assessment by the doctor before surgery
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Meng-liang after the cataract surgey
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Doctors report (on discharge)

• History
• Meng-liang (F/9), admitted 10th April 2007
• Vision Finger counting at 30 cm only
• Cataract in both eyes
• Fundi unclear (due to cataract)
• (fundus the interior lining of the eyeball,
  including the retina (the light-sensitive
  screen))
• No other abnormality noted
• Actions taken
• Cataract surgeries scheduled on the 14th and 16th
  under general anaesthetic
• Discharged (20th April)
• Both surgeries were successful
• No abnormalities noted in the fundus of both eyes
• Amblyopic (ie. subnormal vision)
• Amblyopic training prescribed
• Medications given
• Review in 1-2 weeks

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Follow-up

• Total fees HK10,360
• Winnie called up principal of Loong Yan Primary
  School
• Principal agreed to sent a report
• Letter from the principal
• Received by Rotarian Pauline on the 26th June
• Translated by Winnie and received 2nd July
• Translated version presented on the next 3 slides

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Report on the visual recovery of Pang Meng-liang
after cataract surgeryLoong Yan Primary School,
Duan, Guangxi Province, 28th June 2007

• Pang Meng-liang, born in December 1999, is a
  primary one student of Loong Yan Primary School.
  When she was one year old, she suffered from very
  high fever that caused her eyesight to fail. By
  the time she entered school, she no longer could
  see the road ahead, or recognized faces in front
  of her. She sat in the front row but she still
  could not see what was written on the blackboard,
  nor could she see clearly what was written on the
  textbook. Her learning relied solely through
  listening. Everyday, her parents have to send her
  to school and pick her up after school.

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Cont.

• This year, she received financial aid from Rotary
  Club of Kowloon North and went for a check up in
  Guangxi General Hospital. It was confirmed that
  she had cataract in both her eyes and in the
  month of April, she received cataract surgery.
• Soon after the surgery, Meng-liang had gone back
  to school. Her eyesight has obviously improved
  because she can see what is written on the
  blackboard sitting in the 4th row from the front
  and can also read what is written on the
  textbook. She can see clearly the faces in front
  of her and recognized who they are. She walks to
  school and return home all by herself. Daily life
  style and activities are now much easier for her.

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Cont

• The last few months, Pang Meng-liangs eyesight
  had made a speedy recovery although it is still
  far from normal. She still has difficulty in
  reading small print but she has been quite
  persistent in wearing the corrective lenses for a
  few minutes daily. She hopes to achieve a greater
  improvement in her eyesight.
• Meng-liang and her family are very grateful to
  Rotary Club of Kowloon North for giving
  Meng-liang the chance to see again and all the
  convenience that comes with sight.

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• Can you imagine what it is like to live in a
  world of darkness?
• Fellow Rotarians
• We may think nothing of it its just a small
  thing one might say, BUT we gave a little girl,
  Pang Meng-liang, the

MIRACLE OF SIGHT!!
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Rotary Club of Kowloon North
Be Proud, be VERY Proud of What WE Have Achieved
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• We gave a little girl the gift of SIGHT !!!