Al-Basar International Foundation offers free eye services and surgeries to Nigerians

Al-Basar International Foundation in collaboration with Organisation of Tadhamunul Muslimeen, Kwara State branch and with the approval of Kwara State Ministry of Health, offers free eye services and surgeries to people of Kwara and environs.

The surgeries include cataract surgery, glaucoma surgery and vitreoRetina surgery. The screening exercise will come up on Sunday, 27th November, 2022.

Al-Basar International Foundation مؤسسة البصر الخيرية العالمية (executive office in Saudi Arabia) is a non-profit international NGO. It was established in 1989 to work in the field of prevention and eradication/controlling of blindness & blinding diseases.

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It works together with King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center in Yemen, Bangladesh, Sudan, Nigeria and Pakistan to fight blindness and eye diseases. It has performed surgeries in Sudan and many Africa countries.

*Al Basar has been coming to Ibadan since 1995 but it wants to establish a hospital in Ibadan to serve South Western Nigeria.

In a 2019 campaign funded by King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre in collaboration with Al Basar International Foundation, medical volunteers from Saudi Arabia treated more than 8000 eye patients and performed 800 eye surgeries to remove cataract and glaucoma in Ibadan, Nigeria.