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Meet Lazaro Da Costa De Conceicao and Nuno Da Costa De Jesus, two eye care nurses from Oecussi and Baucau, who were selected to come to Australia for an intensive eye care nurse skills training program in Melbourne and Hobart. For two weeks, … Continue reading
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Sadly, there still remains many Timorese people whose sight cannot be surgically restored. As another arm of the ETEP, with support of the Australian Blindness Initiative, the program is extending its services to include mobility and disability training in order to empower visually … Continue reading
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Following after ETEP’s first long-term ophthalmologist, Dr Girish Naidu, joining the ETEP family is Dr Andreas Kreis. Before making the bold move to Australia, Dr Andreas Kreis actually spent most of his life in Switzerland where he graduated as a medical practitioner … Continue reading
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Saturday 9 April 2011 marked the beginning of ETEP’s fifth annual eye camp to Maliana – the Melbournian Fab Five, Dr Mark Ellis, Nurse Alison Plain, Nurse Sue Anderson and two optometrists, Peter Stewart and Peter Lewis. Across the week in the … Continue reading
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What do you get when you put two ophthalmologists, two nurses, three optometrists, two optical technicians, three orientation and mobility specialists, one glaucoma specialist, one paediatric ophthalmology specialist, three journalists and a medical registrar together? 230 consulations, 95 operations, an eye care … Continue reading
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ETEP congratulates Hemma Kearney on winning the 2010 Pfizer (RANZCO) Ophthalmic Film Festival award for her short documentary on the birth and vision of the East Timor Eye Program and the hard work of its volunteers. The 42nd Annual Congress … Continue reading
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ETEP would like to thank the generosity of the Timor Ethnic Chinese Community in Victoria who came together on November 1 and raised enough funds to purchase a 4WD vehicle for the Program. Their great efforts will allow our teams to … Continue reading
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Earlier this year in July, Dr Bill Glasson and a team of 15 volunteers travelled to Oecussi. One of the volunteers, Ellen Whinnett, a well known journalist and advocate of the program, accompanied the team to report on the hard … Continue reading
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For the second year running, Dr Ross Littlewood led a team of eight volunteers to perform specialist eye care surgery for the people of Maubisse and its surrounding areas. Unfortunately, heavy rains passed through the district before the team had … Continue reading
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Every year Dr Bill Glasson leads a team of medical specialists to Oecussi, a district separated from Timor Leste (East Timor) by West Timor, to provide specialist advice and surgery to visually impared Timorese. Many of those people cannot afford … Continue reading
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