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St John Ambulance Australia raises funds for eye care projects in Australia, East Timor and in Jerusalem, including:
- The St John Eye Hospital Jerusalem http://www.stjohneyehospital.org/
- Outreach Nurses who, operating out of the Jerusalem Hospital, travel into remote areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip with a mobile unit to deliver diagnostic and primary eye care to the young, frail and elderly who are unable to travel.
- A project in Dubbo, NSW to provide a tele-ophthalmic eye screening and treatment program for diabetic retinopathy, serving Indigenous patients living in the Macquarie Area Health Service. (supported by St John NSW)
- A project to train an eye screening aboriginal health worker in Katherine, Northern Territory.
- Australian medical team to perform a range of eye operations and other interventions for the people of Oecussi, East Timor.
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