VISIONARY FOUNDATION INC

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THE VISIONARY FOUNDATION SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTED ITS TENTH ANNUAL SURGICAL EYE MISSION IN SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS. SERVING IN COLLABORATION WITH OUR LOCAL PARTNER, "FUNDACIN DE SERVICIOS MDICOS VOLUNTARIOS" (FSMV), A US-BASED TEAM of FOUR PERSONS UNDER THE LEADERSHIP of DR. J. ALBERTO MARTINEZ CONDUCTED A TOTAL of 52 EYE SURGERIES OVER FOUR DAYS IN LATE JULY AT THE FSMV CHARITY CLINIC. THE MISSION WAS FACILITATED and ASSISTED BY LOCAL PHYSICIAN, DR. MARCOS FAJARDO, and HIS FSMV COLLEAGUES.THIS LATEST MISSION AGAIN PRIORITIZED CORNEAL TRANSPLANTS. HOWEVER, ONLY FOUR CORNEAS WERE ABLE to BE SECURED PRIOR to THE MISSION. DR. FAJARDO and FSMV CONDUCTED PRESCREENING and IDENTIFIED 20 POTENTIAL CORNEAL TRANSPLANT PATIENTS BEFORE THE TEAMS ARRIVAL. ON THE FIRST DAY, DR. MARTINEZ HAD to MAKE THE DIFFICULT DECISION WHO AMONG THE 20 IDENTIFIED POTENTIAL RECIPIENTS WERE MOST SUITABLE to RECEIVE THE FOUR CORNEAS for TRANSPLANT. DR. MARTINEZ THEN PERFORMED TWO PENETRATING KERATOPLASTIES (PK) and