Of. The news and Current Affairs that matter to. Hello and welcome again to rewind im elizabeth purana here on the wind were drawing on a decade of Award Winning documentaries and finding out how the story has moved on since today be revisiting a moving series which followed doctors working against the odds in the south african township of soweto once home to Nelson Mandela so what it was at the forefront of the countrys antiapartheid struggle back in the 1970 s. Hundreds died when student protests were put down with tear gas and live ammunition yet more than 25 years after the end of apartheid so what over maines a dangerous and disadvantaged place at chris hani but ive been at hospital one of the largest in the world and known locally as bada maybe 70 percent of all admissions are emergencies many of them gunshot wounds about as Ophthalmology Department the st john i hospital treats around 50000 patients every year many of them victims of Domestic ViolenceBullet Wounds and car hijackings back in 2009 al jazeera aired a series of films on the work of bottles medical teams and today weve chosen to focus on those i doctor is facing a severe work. Flooded with insufficient responses here a saving so what seeing the light. So went to a south africas most populous township and home to millions of by. Some chance i can act as part of a massive chris hani paragon of hospital also known as baron and is the biggest eye hospital in the southern hemisphere. Many of so it has poor and indigent utilize the services on offer. We serve a Huge Population here of the greatest separators probably at least 2 and a half 1000000 we dont know the exact numbers and we know it is the eye hospital weve been here since 1955 and be part of beara and we have a good reputation we have a lot of social violence Motor Vehicle accidents and it is then also gunshot injuries that come to us in our main function was to do catch a surgery here we are overwhelmed on a daily basis by all the trauma that we get. Dr rob daniel is a few weeks away from completing his 5 year residency at st johns and he will be moving into private practice and i think that. This is the screening clinic the function of which is to filter out to needs to be seen today. And really to pick up the most urgent problems and really to treats. Small problems that can be sorted out in a short period of charm on the lose. On a typical day rob can see between 2 and 300 patients. And. The stress of them in this is africa is always short equipment is always a problem. Most of us have our own equipment just to get through. The barracks we check the same day because if theres any problem then we want to be able to. Just pick it up right away or youve got a date for today you can go to the main clinic youve got to follow the structure discover my clinic and people with trauma will see them the said and read organize a card for them and then theres a scene in the mines and they don the bottom shift up says. Patients are referred from the Screening Room to the main clinic they can wait most of the day in the queue. Every day we talk to patients that come and see a c o m e what you call the p. C. Or something at this these was. Your business. This is the test. I repeat patient 43 year old polish led into the clinic by his friend pulls blindness was caused by untreated diabetes his wife couldnt accompany him as she is the familys only breadwinner she supports poland their 4 children leave to go to court also his rights are retreating that essentially trying to make him comfortable its another to move the pirates out without trying to get individual improvement in college. But unfortunately taken a turn for the worse story called stuck to him and connor a senior doctor to get a 2nd opinion on polls cases its a big Book Solutions you know its coming out good got to 6 i just look at sublight i mean we have to look at that with. That knowledge the eyes open. The eyes going to become very bad. And so the best option for you really is to have an operation where we would remove the our. Hair understand. I dont deserve to have reasonable eyesight you can do a commodity if youve got poor vision because whatever we do reusing a license to see the pathology in the eye to make a diagnosis we see more and more of these not cause blindness in a variety of ways tricks earlier in diabetic patients they do get damage to the blood vessels. Sometimes they develop new blood vessels which could go in the back of the eye which believe they can get hemorrhage is. Thats what thats the more obvious he said new blood vessels growing in abnormal blood vessels which were leaking and bleeding and this race had a huge bleed and that bleed created a cloud that you couldnt see through thats why he had the surgery done yesterday. We have to draw them into nights the next time this patient comes if somebody else easy middle east he knows what weve seen at the last because it would be a good thing to read a book case and you know. We deal with people in terms of their life your vision is the most important sense which you have to not have that is so debilitating how all the old laws of the old how old are the. Long time. Looking new ones abroad can. You go back to old losses obviously theyre not going to be set up for the new lens that we put inside you are so that could well be the reason. Why its not seeing well in the distance but at least we look for a reason the new found. The moment. Rudnick sees a 75 year old woman he presents with cataracts look like. A simple operations over store has sucked but there is a 2 year waiting list at john. Because thats right so theyre really relates to. 60 percent of 6 year olds 70 percent of 7 year olds and song. Called no or put us on this. Group called 5 year. Anything can go get when it. Comes that they go. Big smile. That would drop. You know i was. Told as the. Old saying about the eyes the window to the soul. We doctors i mean we deal with people on a very personal basis which is fundamentally based on trust comfort which a patient feels by us caring for them thats what gives us a lot of a job satisfaction. Brought thats it. Another day and theyre about. It. Yeah i mean for some doctors its another day seeing patients on the benches while for hemant its a Pediatric Clinic which brings its own particular challenges. Though. Its wrong. For you. Can suck it they dont like to be touched are you going to try to guess they when they awaken with a plea for. Some sweets. To say youre just going to be patient with their in the video on these kids who use things like hundreds and thousands just to get an estimate of what their visions last. Year. Lets say you see that person right. There you know i mean really can see me. 80 percent of all sin city put comes from the eyes and also the way you view the wall perceive the world come from my eyes basically i mean these are kids that i can only know some of them you can do something about someone in your country and i think at the developmental problems you know when you are walking along the route its you that follows the boy who probably has a neurological disorder if i was he would be referred to bear. For further tests like now you know i show you the small streets he doesnt he can see there you know see looks like he can see large objects but he cant see the smaller ones you know. The eyes are a part of the beginning room and sleeping baby has got some sort of syndrome you know. Todays post surgery dory will be removing his eyes and inserting a silicone ball into the empty socket to stop the pain that also in his blind eye is causing him. Sorry for an inflamed so sorry this is painful because of his blindness paul has never seen his young son in. My love my mom or my son the last one i do. I dont know you so were 10 miles from here and. Im getting my weather model im looking for a. Camera doing whats called a restoration. Basically rue the corner and put in a silicon ball to have some volume to the orbit they closed off. From the ice block 3 opted to go to the very final solution and deliver suresh right now im just cutting rather coming into. The work with 3 other things with the. Following place in the world you never get because the exposed to so many different conditions. Right so thats arsenic and or. Where weve put the silicone bowl in our now were just going to close up were going to close the sclera and in the country club when were done. Really well there are a lot of problems like complications to the success of this rationing. I should be filing polish it should go out tomorrow. The doctors at st johns i can volunteer their free time to operate on a few of the thousands awaiting cataract surgery. Called the mercy list this gives sight in one eye to those who are completely blind. Who was there on the board. All. The time was you sure its ok it. Was. The most a list patients are fortunate to jump the 2 year waiting list on this issue is to learn to read all of them under local anaesthetic so none of the patients are going to be really asleep reject them with the local anesthetic injection every go. Youll see that start going away in ok all the slowly. This simple procedure will change their lives restoring their vision and independence in only 20 minutes. If agree want to try to give a perfect operation youre going to try to perfect each there because if you get into their private life the next step is you. Know the couple have developed in millions their lives in your eyes normally clear. As you get older it becomes a pacifier. And this was a quote here. Were just remove the where naturally and we said a couple. That you personally are going to replace the patients naturally because if you dont put a lens in the person going to a very strong glasses the focus. Of this landscape is in the. Case off of the finish here you dont have any pain. No pain. Finish operation when a very nice. Letter over the course of it work or rob is about to perform his last cataract surgery at st johns before completing his 5 year training at barron his last patient is a paraplegic hes hoping to make her life easier with one less disability. By an open wound and clearly not the carefully edited great to see liquor all need maybe just to get in all the big books and. They do and it was. The incidence of cataracts extremely high no matter where you go with the bread and butter of any of them of as you practice because the most common program. Its actually the most Successful Operation that we have in modern medicine. That means that the results are good one of the reasons i did up from was it was you wouldnt most of the song. I want to vacuum 200. 00 pieces of foam others is is probably one of the fosters areas of growth and medicines just unbelievable i mean a year ago i was telling president theres nothing i can do for you for this or that condition and today i can offer them the treatment is just you know a psych saw 3. Ropes move into private practice will allow him to keep up with the latest technologically concerts which barack turned into his office. The doctors have operated on 8 minutes he just patients come and finishes with the last patient of the day. I enjoy working you know i enjoy doing new procedures if i can. What gives me excited is getting sidekick to people so thats a real big deal to them and the other thing is this isnt also an academic institutions. Theres always new things and. The so many things because. I think in the future we should be able to cure almost all blind. Until then. Its got a ball of the. Nation in the afternoon rob gets another perspective of barack from the. Plates to floss more there but quite challenging and very technical a lot of the technical stuff all. Of a recent book from our home page to flog the whole thing about who really is rising rate liberates experience. Him we have a problem the problem behind. Come on. One of. The other sort of all. About all of this because of the a little. Over here i am wait a minute there are one hospital. Its just such a goldmine of experience. I suppose you know a lot. Going into private practice. So quite confident with the experience of going to. This morning the doctors on call the rifle look to find 2 trauma cases waiting for them the patients have been sent to them from the trauma unit. And this gentleman who try to hijack a post. Through the broker book versus. Stranded 7 of. Them. With south africa having one of the highest crime rates in the world cause hijackings are commonplace acts of senseless violence often accompany the crimes. To. The best raising the risk we have to do the further damage its good riddance what i need to buy a. Car thats been cut. You see anything that was all. He said about. You but. Its hard to hear a little bit and then of course feel that. You have to take it off. You know well put them all into it. But the cost on front of it that i would. Andree books the man for surgery and quickly moves on to deal with a case of Domestic Violence. She says she was 1st punched in the right of a has been in the early hours of this morning she sustained no less rushing to unload and we still need to look at the high to see whether there is really very much thought as well that theyve ever knocked out looking down on me look down or. Can you see me take tea can you see how the little. Sister can you ask her whether she can see nicely with it are all with the division is down on the number down there i mean. Here we have over there you can see me. About 33 just needed to look. Ok. Were going to need to operate this i. V. Was ok. In south africa one woman is killed by her partner every 6 hours leading to the highest rate of femicide in the world. So this morning to see better. You look forward to me please. See her nurse cataract operation or got to know the only to the right right exactly that i fix by being. Very morning wondering. How is your not. Here on my. Knee saying. Its going to. Be up to. The surgery went well that was it was difficult for 3 cataract was extremely odd but its all. Szell seem very rare. On this for its. Nice to lay the blame for this. Sort of of a well. Known to the police but said to leave actually its one special right. That one saving so wet are seeing the light rewind return recently to to see how much has changed in the decade. Some but not. One of the little by little of that book. Living there meaning that he. Put that little. Celeste in the nigel the beggar was so. When we 1st met dr Robert Daniel he was finishing his 5 year residency thats in Johns Hospital its a way to. A decade on he continues to serve the community he set up a charity called banani which means let us all see inside africa zoo to learn which. This is Incredible Technology what what it does measures a childs vision from one meter in one second and it gives us an automated result from there we are able to screen our children who have. Pathology and we then expose them to a fool i am a nation and allow them to be treated in a 1st world environment. Because this is so simple that. We literally in a in a toilet. And we can deliver this to everybody got. 5. With this portable quit went to daniel clinic anyway including this toilet in a Community Center you can examine 300 or more children in one session. It was his time at st Johns Hospital in soweto to inspire him to continue serving the poll even though he now runs a successful private practice with the latest technology. I think spending 4 years. Of very popular. In front of the experience on to me that. Im Privileged Group of people i conned to ignore the aspects of life weve done all have. Talked to daniel treats adults its an eye clinic based in the church. Got it. In english we call it a cataract so the catch reg means that the lens inside is. So were going to arrange for you to have an operation. 10 years later the plight of you average person in the flood community in south africa is no better perhaps even a little worse than what it was this is a great motivator for us to keep giving back to these communities and to a little bit to improve their lot. 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