BY MIKE TUA
RURAL villagers in North Guadalcanal, Solomon Island have received life-changing support after local medical professionals at the Good Samaritan Hospital teamed up with the U.S. Navy Optometry Team of the Pacific Partnership 2022 mission in the country.
U.S. Navy ophthalmologists have conducted ophthalmic eye examinations and delivered high-quality reading glasses, distance glasses, and sunglasses to hundreds of villagers at their visit to the Good Samaritan Hospital on Friday (September 2, 2022), at Tetere, North Guadalcanal.
A rural church worker, and retired teacher, Hudson Dika Zamabule, who received pairs of reading glasses, a distance glass, and a sunglass from the U.S. Navy Optometry Team after undergoing an eye examination at the Good Samaritan Hospital said thanked the U.S. Navy ophthalmologists for offering the free eye-check services to the people of Guadalcanal.
“The Pacific Partnership mission has given us free eye-checks and examination services out of their love and heart – and I would like to thank them,” he said. “Eye treatment or check-up services are very expensive in the Solomon Islands; a reading glass costs almost $80 for a pair especially if you go to the National Referral Hospital (NRH) – Eye Centre.”
He said he is super excited and wants to celebrate the total restoration of his sight.
“Now that I have my sight back, I want to say that I am healed, and I want to celebrate God’s gift of sight.
“After almost ten years, I can’t see from far and also from a close distance and it’s blurry. For now, my eyesight problem is solved,” Hudson told Sunday Isles with a huge smile.
