Sameth, a Cambodian boy, recovers 80% Of His vision in the right eye thanks to the Fundación Fernández-Vega
In 2017, when Sameth was 10 years old he had an accident due to the explosion of an anti-personnel mine. This caused him several wounds to his body as well as full vision loss with his left eye, and part of his vision with his right eye.
The Fundación Fernández-Vega Performs Over 100 Surgeries In Its Last Solidarity Trip To Honduras
For third year in a row, the Fundación Fernández-Vega (FFV) has travelled to Honduras to perform cataract surgeries, first cause of reversible blindness in the world, to local patients. Performing this surgery entails little complications in Spain but becomes really difficult in countries with limited resources.
A Boy From Cameroon With Congenital Glaucoma, Cataract And Corneal Opacity Improves His Vision Thanks To Solidarity
The Fundación Fernández-Vega has collaborated with EDEA Camerún and Obra Social “La Caixa” to improve the quality of life of Fabrice Samuel Edwe, 16 years old, saving one of his two eyes that had been affected with glaucoma since he was born.
The Fundación Fernández-Vega attended five hundred individuals during their last expedition to Equatorial Guinea
Several pterygium surgeries were performed, as well as an emergency surgery on a child due to severe corneal perforation
The Fundación Fernández-Vega Checks The Eyesight Of Over 400 Individuals During Their Last Expedition To Cambodia
A team consisting in Drs Javier and Lucía Fernández-Vega and César Sierra, as well as optometrist Javier Lozano, together with Dr Javier’s wife, Mar Rodríguez and their daughter, María Fernández-Vega Rodríguez, who carried out intense welfare efforts, travelled for the ninth year in a row to the Asian country thanks to the collaboration the foundation maintains with Kike Figaredo, the Apostolic Prefect of Battambang.
Charity Eye Care in Guinea-Bissau
Over 50 patients underwent surgery for severe cataracts and have recovered their eyesight
Eye Care Beyond Our Borders
Thanks to the cooperation of the Asturian Jesuit Kike Figaredo the Fundación Fernández-Vega travelled for the eighth consecutive year to Cambodia to check the eyesight of over 500 individuals. “These check-ups are very important as a large part of academic failure is due to sight problems,” says Dr Parra, who participated in the initiative
Over 550 eye glasses to see Cambodia with a fresh look
One of the innovations of this trip was the visit to a camp for political refugees
THE MOST IMPORTANT OPHTHALMOLOGY EXPEDITION TO ANGOLA IN UNDER WAY
From the 12th to the 18th of July 2015, a team of 17 physicians and volunteers from the Fundación Fernández-Vega and the Fundación Barraquer, will perform in Luanda, in collaboration with the Health Ministry of Angola, approximately 500 cataract surgeries
THE FUNDACIÓN FERNÁNDEZ-VEGA AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE ORDER OF MALTA SIGN A PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
The Fundación Fernández-Vega and the Fundación Hospitalaria de la Orden de Malta in Spain (FHOME in Spanish) have signed a framework agreement whereby they will share relevant experiences for the purpose of their respective foundations.
