The Vision Van, a Mobile Eye Clinic, Aids Relief Efforts in Tsunami-stricken Areas
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The Vision Van, a mobile eye clinic, aids relief efforts in tsunami-stricken areas.
In the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami of March 11, our group at Keio University worked diligently to bring the Vision Van, a mobile eye clinic, from Miami, Florida, to disaster areas where medicines, eyeglasses, and indeed all other ophthalmological supplies and services, were nonexistent, thereby assisting many tsunami survivors suffering from eye proble...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Keio Journal of Medicine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1880-1293,0022-9717
DOI: 10.2302/kjm.61.10