Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Alejandro Licea | Special Operations Command South | 04.27.2012
Dr. Diego A. Rodriguez, a volunteer ophthalmologist, uses a slit lamp to check the eyes of an elderly woman as part of a two-day Surgical Civic Action Program April 27-28 in the small town of La Macarena, Colombia, located 170 miles southeast of Bogota. The ophthalmologist was one of 30 volunteers who gave his time to “Patrulla Aerea Civil Colombiana” or PAC, a Bogota-based non-government......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Alejandro Licea | Special Operations Command South | 04.27.2012
Dr. Catalina del Portillo, a volunteer ophthalmologist, prepares to conduct eye surgery on a person suffering from cataracts as part of a two-day Surgical Civic Action Program April 27-28 in the small town of La Macarena, Colombia, located 170 miles southeast of Bogota. Cataracts are an eye disease in which the clear lens of the eye becomes cloudy opaque, causing a decrease in vision....
