As photographers and creatives with an appreciation for light and beauty, we are thrilled to be partnering with Orbis to help them bring and protect the vision of those around the world.

Hospital Based Trainings

With the donation from 5DayDeal, Orbis plans to run five Hospital Based Trainings around the world!

When local hospitals in remote areas cannot access the training they need, Orbis brings the training to them. This simple yet powerful concept is at the center of their Hospital Based Training Projects. Bringing high-quality eye care to remote areas is a challenge.

The areas which require the most help are all too often lacking the trained medical professionals to provide service. Solving such a critical problem takes a bit of ingenuity, and Orbis has been working with their partners to meet these challenges head on. Hospital Based Training Projects allow Orbis to partner with hospitals around the world to deliver training right in their existing facilities.

Their Volunteer Faculty bring hands-on training and lectures into hospitals, working with the equipment and staff available to provide customized medical education to local eye care professionals and trainees.

Your support through 5DayDeal will help bring quality eye care to places like Bangladesh. Before 2001, there was no specialized pediatric eye care training in Bangladesh. There was only one pediatric ophthalmologist to serve 62 million children. By 2010, Orbis had established one international-level training center and had trained 18 pediatric ophthalmologists.

Hospital Based Trainings ensure that the skills taught can be used in each hospital’s day-to-day environment to deliver life-changing eye health to people right in the community. These programs last between one and three weeks, and are designed to address the specific needs that these communities are facing. The results are truly life-changing.

Cybersight

The donation from 5DayDeal could also help Orbis grow Cybersight – their telemedicine and learning platform that connects eye care professionals to the training, mentorship, and resources they desperately need to care for their communities.

Their expert volunteers provide on-demand advice for complex cases, mentoring local eye care professionals on diagnosis and treatment of their patients. Cybersight is also a living library of Orbis's collective training efforts, freely available to all eye health professionals, including current and future generations of nurses, optometrists, anesthesiologists, and ophthalmologists.

They also provide access to live broadcasts of lectures and surgical demonstrations through real-time video conferencing, including broadcasts from their Flying Eye Hospital, to participants all over the world.

The support of Orbis donors like 5DayDeal has enabled them to think differently about classrooms, teaching, and skill sharing, and has enabled live surgeries, lectures and materials to be available and viewable via mobile, so that doctors can access education at no additional cost on a sustainable platform.

Now armed with just a smartphone, local doctors half-way around the world can see through the Orbis volunteer surgeon’s microscope on the Flying Eye Hospital and ask questions in real time. Cybersight has already touched the lives of millions of people - and Orbis is ready to roll up their sleeves to do even more. As we face a future where blindness spreads at an incredible rate, Orbis and 5DayDeal believe Cybersight is our best opportunity to prepare eye health professionals to combat this crisis.