December 2011
2 posts
Eye Surgery Campaign Off to a Great Start in Duk
This is an e-mail message from Dr. Barb Connor, who volunteers as the John Dau Foundation’s Medical Director. She is in South Sudan for a week to help train staff and to oversee an eye surgery campaign by a team of world-renowned eye surgeons from the U.S.
Just a quick update about the progress of our mission so far:
So we have arrived safely in Duk, South Sudan. And it is so great...
JDF Partners with Samaritan's Purse to Provide...
Between November 5th and 12th, eight patients from four different payams in Duk County, received corrective cleft lip surgery, as part of a program implemented by Samaritan’s Purse at the Juba Teaching Hospital. As the designated time approached for the arrival of the chartered plane in Duk Payuel, which would transport the patients and their caretakers to Juba, there was a sense of a sense of...