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Pediatric ophthalmologist Vera Beyuo, working at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana, has partnered with Cure Blindness Project to treat children facing cataracts, glaucoma, and retinoblastoma, while mentoring young women navigating the demands of surgical careers and family.
For two decades, the UK-based Better Lives Foundation has run a free hospital in rural Sierra Leone, training local staff, expanding into maternal care and dentistry, and treating thousands of patients each year, at no cost to those who walk through its doors.
The Jericho Road Wellness Clinic in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, will receive $2.5 million in personal protective gear, medication, and supplies from Direct Relief. A significant number of these items will be used to protect staff and treat patients at a district Ebola containment center.
Save the Children has opened the first hospital dedicated to maternal and newborn care inside the world’s largest refugee camp, bringing round-the-clock emergency obstetric services to more than one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
Bodybuilders in Aichi, MMA fighters in Kochi, and retired sumo wrestlers in Tokyo are taking on caregiving roles in Japan’s nursing homes, drawing young men into a sector facing a shortfall of 570,000 workers by 2040.
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