{"id":103058,"date":"2025-08-30T11:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/103058\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T11:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:48:09","slug":"guernsey-doctor-joins-rwanda-flying-eye-hospital-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/103058\/","title":{"rendered":"Guernsey doctor joins Rwanda flying eye hospital project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack SilverBBC News, Guernsey<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756379168_866_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2e2bd9b0-857c-11f0-a80e-4105c79cbebb.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Orbis A dark-haired woman in a blue dress and jacket stands in front of a passenger jet plane.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Orbis<\/p>\n<p>Anaesthetist Dr Michelle Le Cheminant shared her skills with eye care professionals and anaesthetists from Rwanda<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A doctor from Guernsey says a charity project teaching Rwandan healthcare workers is &#8220;vital for the future of safe surgery&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Anaesthetist Dr Michelle Le Cheminant shared her skills with eye care professionals and anaesthetists in a teaching hospital based on a plane equipped with an operating theatre, recovery room and classroom space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Flying Eye Hospital, run by eye care charity Orbis, visited Rwanda for two weeks in late-July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Dr Ciku Mathenge, medical advisor for Orbis in Africa, said many of the students had never been on a plane before and the training from world-class experts had been &#8220;life-changing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The trip marked Dr Le Cheminant&#8217;s eight time volunteering with the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Rwanda has just 30 anaesthetists for a population of 13 million people, so that training of the next generation is vital for the future of safe surgery,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756379168_866_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/5537d780-857b-11f0-a80e-4105c79cbebb.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Orbis Several people gather around some monitors, while a man in a blue shirt and tie speaks to them. One wears a device on his head which has various lenses on it. They are inside a plane.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Orbis<\/p>\n<p>The Flying Eye Hospital has an operating theatre, recovery room and classroom space<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">She added her &#8220;stand-out moments&#8221; included seeing a trainee&#8217;s sense of pride after doing her first local anaesthetic eye block.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Another was meeting a &#8220;charismatic&#8221; trilby-wearing potato farmer with an &#8220;infectious smile&#8221;, adding: &#8220;He reminded me of home!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Dr Le Cheminant, who is deputy chair of Guernsey&#8217;s Medical Specialist Group, said the project benefited her patients in Guernsey as she learned a lot from other volunteer doctors &#8220;who come from centres of excellence all over the world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The director of the Flying Eye Hospital, Maurice Geary, said the students were &#8220;a wonderful group of young doctors who are committed to delivering care in the future in their communities&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack SilverBBC News, Guernsey Orbis Anaesthetist Dr Michelle Le Cheminant shared her skills with eye care professionals and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-103058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}