The Seva eye camp in Cambodia is taking place over 4 weeks in three western provinces — Banteay Meanchay, Battambang and Siem Reap.
Today is the completion of the Battambang portion which consisted of one week of screening camps held throughout the province and one week of surgery. The total number of patients who received surgery at the close of the camp was 99, but then, as everything was shutting down, a young girl with a very bad squint came.
Kadr, age 13, had come to the school screening program in her village 56 km away from Battambang one month earlier. She and her father travelled the long distance to the eye camp in the hope that she would have her eyes straightened and that the years of teasing and feeling different would end.
Staff at the government hospital had finished surgery and were cleaning up so the girl was too late, but Dr. KC, Seva’s ophthalmologist in Cambodia, immediately demonstrated his enormous kindness and said he would gladly do the surgery.
“Dr. KC’s compassion in seeing her immediately resulted in her not having to wait a whole year to be healed,” says Rocque Goh, a self-confessed Seva fan who witnessed her surgery. “Dr. KC successfully corrected her extreme squint. Her confidence had visibly increased by the next morning. It was a tremendously uplifting experience for me to witness.”
