Operating Trolley For Eye Surgery At Belmont Hospital

Swansea Lions Club, with assistance from the Lions NSW-ACT Save Sight Foundation has presented a Stryker Eye Surgery Stretcher (Model 1089) to Belmont Hospital.  Provision of this equipment will increase capacity for vital cataract and other eye surgery by up to 50%.  The result will mean that the surgery will available to more people and reduce the time patients have to wait for cataract and other eye surgery.  The maximum capacity for 20 cataract operations per week at Belmont Hospital, when combined with modern surgical techniques, will increase to 30 per week.

With longer life expectancy cataract surgery is no longer an unusual operation.  It is expected that most people will require this type of surgery.  Until recently, cataract surgery was only performed on people up to the age of around 75.  Today it is not unusual for healthy 90 year olds to undergo cataract surgery.  This surgery is by no means needed exclusively by older people and there will be many younger people who will benefit from the equipment.