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Isiro (Agenzia Fides) - In collaboration with the local diocese of Wamba, Isiro-Niagara and Dungu Doruma, the NGO CBM Italy, engaged in anti-blindness program, inaugurates the Ophtalmologique Centre of Siloam Isiro (COSI), the first ophthalmic clinic with 20 beds and an operating room which will cover a catchment area of about 2 million people in the north-east Congolese High Huel region, today without any ophthalmic services. It is a province of continuing conflict, famine and lack of services, where CBM Italy works to ensure care and eye care services to the local population. According to a note sent by the NGO to Fides, the structure has the potential not only for being one of the leading ophthalmic centers throughout the region of north-eastern Congo, but also to become a landmark health care to the surrounding areas and its neighbors, including South Sudan. (AP) (Agenzia Fides 04/30/2011)
