Sight On Health In Peru – Day-to-day!
Day 1 (Started 1 day early to start making patients happy!) setting up and our first successful patient of the day! A dozen obstacles overcome and another dozen of patients DONE! Restored sight to 12 very special patients! And our very first patient of this mission came back for her next day follow up! Look...
THE SIGHTS ON HEALTH TEAM IS READY TO DEPART FOR PERU THIS FRIDAY!
18 suitcases and 5 carry on’s are packed and ready to transport a portable operating room & eye clinic from NY to Peru. There are enough supplies to provide 50 cataract surgeries, free of charge to those in need of this sight restoring surgery. In the photo below, Dr Francisco Morales, one of our partners...
SOH Celebrating Their Ten-year Anniversary, Returning to Peru
Great News! Sights on Health, Inc. is celebrating its ten-year anniversary since their first cataract surgical mission to Peru by returning to Calca in the Sacred Valley, October 14-23, 2022 for its first cataract surgical mission since the start of the pandemic. It will be a smaller group than in years past- a team of 13 people...
Press Release – SOH Celebrating Their Ten-year Anniversary, Returning to Peru
Great News! Sights on Health, Inc. is celebrating its ten-year anniversary since their first cataract surgical mission to Peru by returning to Calca in the Sacred Valley, October 14-23, 2022 for its first cataract surgical mission since the start of the pandemic. It will be a smaller group than in years past- a team of 13 people...
Keeping our Sights on Health
Sights on Health assists the elderly of Peru who are suffering for lack of medications. The pandemic has stretched the already thin medical resources in this country beyond the breaking point. Dr. Francisco Morales whom we have had the privilege of working with down in Peru has reached out for support for his elderly patients in...
FNE International Donation
As the pandemic continues to have a devastating affect on many regions in Peru, Sights on Health has donated $1,000 to FNE International to purchase necessary personal protective equipment for Dr Francisco Morales and his staff at Asociacion Winaypaq, Cuzco https://www.asociacionwinaypaq.org/426994404. The donation was tripled by a match from Apple. Dr. Morales left yesterday from Calca...
traveling to remote Minesterio de Salud
This month Dr Francisco Morales has been traveling to remote Minesterio de Salud (Red Cusco Norte) outposts in the Peruvian jungle such as Puesto De Salud Huachibamba, P.S. Conbapata, P.S. Corimayo to deliver supplies purchased by FNE International and Sights on Health. He and his team delivered many masks, face shields ten infrared thermometers and eight...
Thank you to our AMAZING U.S.A. team
Today is the last day of our Peru 2019 John Shanley M.D. M.P.H. Medical & Eye Care Mission…..Thank you to our AMAZING U.S.A. team for donating their time & talents to make the mission so successful…. Dr George Coritsidis – Medical Director & team leader from NY Mike Cipoletti, FNE, Int’l – In country logistics...
Medical Mission in Peru – 2018
Our medical mission in Peru began Monday the 25th. Our team has six medical students from stony brook university, three medical students from UConn and a nursing student from Pace Univeristy. The physicians on the trip include a pediatrician, oncologist, nephrologist, pulmonologist, critical care physicians and a doctor of pharmacy. Our first day began in...
Mission – 2017
Our June 2017 Cataract Surgical and Medical Mission to Calca in the Sacred Valley of Peru was another great success!! Over 500 medical patients and 1,384 eye clinic patients were examined, close to 1,600 pairs of distance, reading and non prescription sunglasses were dispensed, 63 eye surgeries and over 60 ultrasound procedures were performed. This was...
International Artist Donates her Talents to A Promise to Peru, Inc.
Julia Kokoshari is a professional multi-disciplinary artist. At an early age she expressed her talents through painting, music, writing and foreign languages. She has opened several exhibitions in Europe and also here in the U.S. Admirers appreciate her unique way of expressing an idea, concept and theme and how vivid and graded color effects bring...
Cataract Surgical/Medical Mission June 2016, Calca, Sacred Valley, Peru
Our June 2016 Cataract Surgical and Medical Mission to Calca in the Sacred Valley of Peru was a great success!! Over 400 medical patients and 924 eye clinic patients were examined, close to 1,600 pairs of distance, reading and non prescription sunglasses were dispensed, 51 eye surgeries and over 100 ultrasound procedures were performed. This was...