Medical
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ROMAC News – Vanessa heading home
Vanessa is ready to go home on Tuesday. Happy ending and an even happier start for Vanessa and her family. Our wonderful team of volunteers, surgeons, medical teams and the generous members of the Timor-Leste community have given this lovely little girl a chance to have a wonderful childhood with her family and friends. We…
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Restoring Sight: The Journey to Treat Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration
As Leonardo da Vinci noted, our senses are the ministers of the soul—none more vital to daily connection than vision. While common conditions like myopia (1.4 billion people) and cataracts (100 million people) are routinely treated with lenses or surgery, retina-damaging diseases remain a major global challenge. At a recent Mosman Rotary meeting, club member…
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Monica Prague speaks with Rotary about Mercy Ships
Two thirds of the world’s population has no readily accessible medical and surgical care. That’s where Mercy Ships come in. This international non-governmental organisation (NGO) operates the world’s largest civilian hospital ships to provide free, life-changing surgical care and medical training in developing nations, primarily across sub-Saharan Africa where so many of the population lacks…