Two Israeli eye doctors who have been performing surgery in Palau, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia, in recent weeks, say the region needs a roving ophthalmologist.
The doctors saw nearly 200 patients and performed dozens of cataract operations .
They are urging health departments in the three nations to cooperate by hiring a roving ophthalmologist to respond to what they described as significant, and largely untended, eye problems.
They say an eye doctor who rotated among the three countries on a permanent basis would be the most effective in solving the many eye problems that currently go untreated for years at a time.
