Rehoboth Vision NPC

02/08/2023

The drive to prevent unnecessary blindness continues!! 👌🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

18/12/2022

Over 120 cataract operations have been performed since March this year on a volunteer basis by Dr Wezi Maphenduka. This required for her most times to sacrifice her weekends and public holidays!! We wish Dr M, as she is commonly known, God’s blessings and a long life!

Philadelphia Hospital conducted 9 cataract surgery yesterday and today patients were happy to have their eye sight being restored. Many thanks goes to our volunteer opthalmologist Dr Wezi Gloria Maphenduka and the team. Indeed Rural Health Matters.

20/06/2022

Rehoboth Vision in March this year facilitated with Hadassah Eye Care to have at least 10 cataract operations per month for free to the elderly in the Dennilton area. So far over 40 operations have been done.

This has been achieved with Dr Maphenduka of Hadassah Eye Care and her staff, sacrificing a quarter of the time she had previously been consulting and treating paying patients and diverting that to treating the elderly for free.

This was after it was found that there was a backlog of over 700 patients needing cataract operations in Dennilton alone.

The 40 plus people can now see and yet we’re completely blind before the operation.

20/06/2022

Dr Wezi Maphenduka with a patient at Philadelphia Hospital in Dennilton, Mpumalanga.

22/03/2021

"On the 20th of March a female patient, 57 years old, consulted with me for an eye problem she was experiencing.

The diagnosis made was of bilateral cataracts with vision of Hand Movements (HM). Surgery is the only treatment option she has at the moment. The cost in private care for this procedure is prohibitive in her case as she is not on medical aid, and she no means to raise the money, not even theatre costs alone.

Her plan is to wait for when she turns 60 and qualifies for a government pension so she can save for her surgery.

She does have an option to go on the waiting list at her local district hospital where she can later be operated on by the South African National Council for the Blind (SANCB) team or get referred to a Provincial hospital in her referral structure.

There is a need for a hospital where such people can be assisted. If you would like to partner with Rehoboth Vision to make this a possibility for the masses of South Africans desperate for affordable eyecare, send us an email (info@rehoboth-vision.org) and we will connect with you further". Any measure taken if aggregated with others can lead to preventing blindness to people like this lady described above.

Dr Wezi Maphenduka

02/10/2020

Here a patient is undergoing ocular structure measurement to establish the health of her eye. Early discovery of certain conditions and proper treatment has prevented a number of people from losing their sight all together.

Rehoboth Vision NPC’s role comes in when a patient can’t afford the cost of treatment, then resources are mobilized by Rehoboth to cover such costs. Patients in general are encouraged to pay whatever they can afford. Currently Rehoboth Vision NPC is working hand in hand with Hadassah Eye Care (Pty) Ltd to reach and treat a number of would-be-blind people, especially in remote places.

Hadassah runs it’s eye clinic care outreaches in Mamelodi and KwaMhlanga. Hadassah also operates a mobile clinic fitted with high tech modern equipment for ocular biometry, measurement and Fundus photo taking of the eye structure.

01/10/2020

Today, 1st of October, 2020 marks the start or formalisation of an initiative that started by Dr Wezi Maphenduka. As a qualified medical doctor, surgeon and Ophthalmologist, Dr Maphenduka has worked mainly in Southern Africa, but also India and the USA, helping many retain sight, and others improve their vision.

While she has mostly been using her government pay to fund this initiative, and many a times pay on behalf of those that could not afford a necessary treatment cost, it was thought prudent to formalise her work and create a vehicle that will allow others like her get involved in helping prevent needless blindness. This approach will also ensure sustainability of the initiative beyond her own resources.