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Dr. Frumar invented new techniques for performing laser surgery vision correction ( as Nu -Lase ) received numerous procedures cataract surgery , eyelid surgery blepharoplasty performed complex and has extensive experience in all aspects of the domain of the elite of ophthalmology. However, this article does not focus on the huge difference it has made to the world's eyes , but the difference it made in a country that seems to be a world apart.

Last month, Vision Cambodia sent a team of eye care professionals in the Cambodian province of Kampong vomiting in central Cambodia.

volunteer sydney Like most countries , a rural area . Desperately poor, is best known for its palm trees and rice fields. Team Vision Cambodia about 40 people including ophthalmologists , optometrists and nurses , doctors and other members of staff of volunteer sydney. If past tours are anything to go by, it would have taken more than 250 waterfalls , made ​​over 850 eye exams , distributed 4,000 pairs of sunglasses, sunglasses 1500 , and has provided thousands of meals for patients and their caregivers (volunteer sydney).

They work 12 to 15 hours per day for 10 days in the tropical heat (according to Australian standards ) the most basic conditions . And they love every minute "volunteer sydney".

volunteer sydneyFrumar leading ophthalmologist Dr. Kim joined the organization Vision Cambodia last year. While his considerable surgical expertise was put to use in volunteer sydney trips to Cambodia , as vice president , also plays a crucial role in long-term strategic planning and continuous development of the organization. Functions as liaison with government authorities and doctors say his reach. It is also very involved in fundraising activities volunteer sydney.

Dr. Frumar said Cambodia Vision is "much more than a simple cataract operation . "


" This is a big operation. We have a group of about 50 people . Surgeons and nurses there . Us , optometrists visit schools and children from the screen, we have doctors and nurses and people who practice Chinese herbal medicine.

"We work with local cataract surgeons and medical students from Cambodia , support and education and food.

" The Cambodian people have no medical services. We go there and our work has a small - almost infinitesimal - the impact on the health system . But it has a huge impact on people's lives ."

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One project that excites Dr. Frumar obviously the work of Cambodian Vision in Australian Modular Lightweight , high tech designed to allow the team to develop their own clinical facilities .

"It's still early, but we try to design a kit that can be easily transported and set up when we arrived. Eighty percent of Cambodians live in the country where there are no hospitals .

"Instead of asking them to travel for days to see us , we could set up in different places ," he said .
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The structure " Meccano -like" could be used as a surgical center or in a medical center or general pediatrics , said Dr. Frumar .

Dr. Frumar said Cambodia had a "low profile" in Australia , and most people do not recognize the urgent need in the country.

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"Most people in Australia are remembered flooding in Thailand earlier this year , but it was worse in Cambodia, where 1.7 million people have been displaced ," said Dr. Frumar . ( As a side note , Cambodia and ABC Tissue Vision initiated fundraising activities in Australia and in partnership with other organizations in Australia Cambodia and religious institutions to buy 621 tons of rice , which were then delivered over 13,500 families in nine provinces along Tongle Sap river . )

" When you visit the " Killing Fields Museum in Cambodia , you begin to understand how these people lived .

" Pol Pot killed 95 percent of the professionals. Much time is needed to rebuild the country experience ," said Dr. Frumar .