title: [Analysis of the methods and effects of cataract surgeries in the poor areas].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the effective method for the vision rehabilitation for cataract patients in the poor countryside in mountain areas.
  
  
  METHODS
  To review and analyze the method by the Lee Karsing Foundation for vision rehabilitation since November 1998.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Until December 2002, 10,569 people got free treatment, 1,164 cataract patients regained their vision after free surgery.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  That we serve the patients with safe and effective surgery and call on the spirit of devotion as well as safe medical resources, is one of the aims of our job in the poorly equipped hospitals for the "Vision Recovery & Poverty Aid Event".
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou 515041, China.
authors.forename: Daocheng
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D001766:Blindness / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D002386:Cataract / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D019654:Lens Implantation, Intraocular; D011203:Poverty; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome