Dear Carl,
I thank you and Vision Systems, Inc. for your gracious support of the Double Harvest Ministry in Haiti.
The equipment you have supplied, including the slit lamp, keratometer, intraocular pressure measuring tools, indirect ophthalmoscope, direct ophthalmoscope, and Finoff light have allowed us to work up patients for cataract surgery in the surgical eye clinic in Haiti.
Before Russ Montgomery came to the clinic, there was no instrumentation to measure the visual deficit or diagnose the diseases that needed surgery. The equipment you have shared has allowed us to thoroughly examine hundreds of patients who have been blind for years. The additional provision of surgery to these patients has changed their lives. We routinely have removed difficult cataracts and placed precise intraocular lenses into their eyes to allow prompt return of vision, literally the next day.
Since the average salary in Haiti is only about $1.00 per day, none of the patients could afford any eye care, or medications. The equipment you have provided has changed many lives, allowed men to return to work, read, see their families for the first time in years, and walk without danger. I hope that the people who work for and support Vision Systems will appreciate the value of recovery from blindness that your equipment has provided.
Words cannot express the joy we all feel when we remove an eye patch after surgery the next day and have the patients dance around the room with glee, at being able to see again.
Jim Rowsey, MD