Specsavers Kenyan eye camp treats 1,300

Specsavers Home Visits optometrist Kejal Shah organised a three-day eye care camp in the Kenyan city of Kisumu and treated 1,300 patients.  

Shah anticipated only 600 patients at the clinic but was welcomed by 1,300 due to high demand for free eye care.  

Patients were screened during the camp and the local ophthalmologist Dr. Mansour Abukhelewa, which Shah collaborated with, carried out health checks before she undertook the refraction and dispensed glasses. Glasses were donated by Home Visits patients for the trip.  

‘We actually saw 1,300 people for an eye test – more than double what we had anticipated. People started queuing three hours before the clinic opened at 8am, just to make sure they could get in.