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Help from Specsavers
COPA receives a generous donation from Specsavers in Guernsey. As a direct result of this donation, a local Optician visited La Hoya and Bombita over 2 days to provide free examinations to the children and adults.
In total, nearly 70 people need glasses and 2 people have been identified needing more intensive treatment, which could involve eye surgery. These examinations identified that Aliciana Novas, a 7 year old girl from Bombita needed further eye examinations. Aliciana had symptoms of severe eye itching, soreness, eye droopiness and could only see ahead in one direction.
In June 2006 COPA Health Adviser, Barbara Goeppert went with Aliciana and her mother to the hospital in Santo Domingo and she was diagnosed as having the early stages of a disease that gradually causes the muscles to lose their strength and function. This visit to the hospital was generously funded by a workgroup from the United States who visited the DR this summer. She has had a further check-up and is now on medication, funded by a donation from Cricklade United Church, Wiltshire.
Aliciana's mother has informed Barbara that she continues to make see improvement in Aliciana's eye movements. Aliciana will have a further check ups to monitor the status of her glaucoma.
