On February 25th, Xuanxuan (pseudonym), a girl from Ninghe District, Tianjin, underwent strabismus surgery at Tianjin Purui Eye Hospital with the assistance of the Shanghai Purui ** Association's innocent and non-"slanting" public welfare project, bidding farewell to her 17 years of strabismus.
Xuanxuan's grandfather was found to have cataract during the 2021 rural eye health examination of the public welfare medical team of Puri Ophthalmology, and like Xuanxuan, he completed the operation for free by applying for project assistance** and restored a clear vision. The strange eyes she suffered in the process of growing up made this girl shy and shy, revealing a maturity that did not match her age in her taciturnity, but when it came to the profession of preschool teacher, Xuanxuan's words were firm and powerful: "I think every child should be protected." Strabismus not only affected Xuanxuan's life, but also affected Xuanxuan's employment in the future, but because the cost of strabismus surgery was indeed an unbearable expense for her family, she had to give up the surgery after thinking about it again and again**, and the members of the public welfare team also felt sorry for not being able to protect Xuanxuan's dream.
Three years have passed, the day has not been "oblique" children's eye disease public welfare project has just been implemented in Tianjin, we immediately remembered the girl who always insisted on her dream, after learning about her recent situation with Xuanxuan's family, the results are exciting, the girl has been admitted to the local preschool normal school in Ninghe, still with action to narrow the distance between herself and the dream, her parents heard the news, the first time to pick up Xuanxuan back to Preh Ophthalmology for preoperative examinations.
Ma Huizhi, the academic leader of the pediatric ophthalmology and optometry specialty of Preh Ophthalmology, learned about Xuanxuan's situation, and personally led the pediatric eye disease team to conduct a detailed preoperative examination for the girl, after passing a series of examinations such as prism, synoptic machine, stereopsis, etc., the results showed that Xuanxuan's strabismus was very large, and because she had strabismus since she was a child, she did not have stereopia function, and finally decided to implement exotropia correction for her eyes to restore the eye position, and through systematic visual function training after surgery, There is also hope for the recovery of the stereoscopic function of Xuanxuan's eyes.
In order to ensure that the postoperative eye position and the surgical design plan are not bad at all, Director Ma Huizhi decided to implement local anesthesia for Xuanxuan to ensure the immediate adjustment of the eye position during the operation, but this will bring more pain to the girl's surgical process. Although she still has to go through a period of visual training, the dream of that kindergarten teacher has changed from a distant star to a dream within reach.
Director Ma Huizhi talked about this public welfare activity and felt a lot. In the process of diagnosis and treatment for strabismus patients every year, she always sees some low-income families, when the child's eyes have problems, the parents have no consciousness or economic constraints, and do not take the child for professional **, resulting in the child's eye health getting worse and worse, which is very regrettable. As an ophthalmologist, she is really pleased to be able to personally participate in the public welfare assistance of children with eye diseases, and to see these young eyes return to normal under her own **, and she also hopes to help more families through the public welfare project of innocence and "oblique".
In addition, Director Ma Huizhi also emphasized that the current prevalence of strabismus in children in China has reached about 3%. Because many strabismus patients have obvious eye shape characteristics, it is easy to bring huge psychological pressure to children with strabismus, causing them to have psychological problems such as low self-esteem and introversion, and at the same time affect children's visual function, especially stereoscopic vision. She reminded that the sooner the child with strabismus is operated, the better the recovery of visual function will be, 2 to 8 years old is the ideal time for strabismus, and I hope that every family can pay attention to children's eye diseases, do not miss the best time, and give children a healthy childhood.
The Innocent and Non-"Strabismic" Children's Eye Disease Relief Project is a long-term and sustainable public welfare project, which will invest 10 million yuan to provide free surgical assistance for children in need of strabismus surgery. Shanghai Preh Charity Association hopes to provide help to children with strabismus, help them recover their visual function, eliminate the psychological pressure caused by strabismus, and face their future study, work and life with a more positive and optimistic attitude.