The project continues to operate in nursing homes, day care centers, community centers or private homes. "Lirot" association brings the clinic to the elderly's environment and conducts examination days, all over the country.
Here is a recent case story: A woman phones and says that her 95-year-old father is in a nursing home, had combined cataract surgery and suffers from pressure and pain in his eyes, due to glaucoma, which he has suffered from for many years. He complains from April that he cannot see in his left eye, but he is confined to his house and opposes going to a clinic or hospital for an examination.
We reached him, with ophthalmologist Dr. Meir Yehezkel and Zedekiah Baruch, the project manager, with special equipment for eye tests, which includes an intraocular pressure test. A full examination was performed, including pupil dilation. The summary of the examination revealed high intraocular pressure and increased dryness. The doctor recommended drops to lower intraocular pressure and drops against dryness as well as a review after a month.
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