Tribute paid to dead workers

Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) has extended its sympathies to the families and friends of the 10 International Assistance Mission (IAM) eye camp team members who were killed by gunmen in a remote part of Afghanistan last week.

IAM is a not-for-profit Christian charity that runs the National Organisation for Ophthalmic Rehabilitation (NOOR) programme in Afghanistan. Its team, headed by New York optometrist Tom Little and including UK surgeon Dr Karen Woo, were returning to Kabul having carried out an eye camp in Nuristan at the invitation of local communities.

Little was described as a veteran of such expeditions, having spent 34 years in Afghanistan, as well as an active member of the World Council of Optometry's Public Health and Development Committees.