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Missionary Doctors of Dublin Eye Associates

Extending compassion to a hurting world

Background

The world is beset by physical, as well as spiritual, maladies, and it is the common commitment of the community of Christian believers to try and alleviate these problems, to the extent this is possible. Our doctors believe that it is imperative that we share our skills and our faith as the opportunity presents, so that we may be good stewards of the manifold blessings which we have been presented by God.

The Goal
Some fifteen to twenty million people in underdeveloped countries of the world have treatable causes of physical blindness, mainly cataract, and each year physicians of our practice participate in reaching those as we are able. Millions more, perhaps billions, face a spiritual darkness that dominates and degrades their lives, their dignity, and clouds and confuses their hopes and dreams. If we of the more affluent nations can reach out to even a few of these people, we can help them to receive physical help in the form of needed medical procedures or devices. As we use our God-given skills to meet physical needs, we also attempt to construct a bridge to aid them in coming to a life-changing decision to receive Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord.

Progress

So far through the year 2009, physicians and technicians from our practice have participated in more than 65 overseas missions trips, mainly to Honduras and Jamaica, and have performed approximately 3,000 free eye operations on patients in these locations. In all cases a spiritual program has been in force as well, and hundreds of these patients have been given spiritual vision along with their surgery. Additional mission trips are planned for each succeeding year, so that it is hoped that this will be a program without end. As this is written, a team from our practice is delivering eye care to poor people in Jamaica, with both Drs. Smalley and Ozment doing the surgery there.

Thanks
Many companies that supply surgical materials for our practice have donated generously to assist in our mission efforts. Fairview Park Hospital (Dublin) and Meadows Memorial Hospital (Vidalia) have been instrumental in providing various support in the way of instruments, unused goods saved from our local private surgical cases, and other special needs as they have arisen. Alcon Surgical, Pharmacia, Staar Surgical, Ciba Vision, and several other companies have given thousands of dollars worth of goods to assist us. Our patients have contributed hundreds of pairs of used glasses for the Jamaica mission trip, where surgery is not the only service, as many patients simply need eyeglasses. Dr. David Altman of McRae, GA, has participated in numerous of our missions trips, dispensing thousands of pairs of glasses to needy Jamaicans.