Eye surgery on the Thai Burma border.
Civil war and ethnic conflict are two of the intractable problems facing the world today, and they are followed by refugees and displaced people almost as inevitably as night follows day. This article looks at what has been achieved by two British ophthalmologists working with the local people in just one of these situations.
Bolster
Mary
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North Middlesex Hospital, London.
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