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Eye-opening health care in ARMM gives blind hope – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.

Philippine Daily Inquirer
Filed Under: Health, Philippines – Regions

A SURVIVOR of many armed hostilities in Sulu, 60-year-old Salip Minnaw Musaiya had been blind for 10 years. Her hope to see the beauty of the world again kindled when relatives informed her that an eye mission was being mounted.

The regional health secretary of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) himself, Dr. Kadil Sinolinding, performed the operation on Musaiya in Parang town two weeks ago.

The woman could not help but cry when the patch over her eye was finally removed. One by one, she saw and recognized her nephews and cousins around her.

A nephew, Army Sergeant Nur Sabdani was so grateful that he hugged Sinolinding and acting Governor Ansaruddin Adiong of the ARMM “for coming over and giving light to my aunt’s eyes.”

“You are like a speck of light in the darkness enough to give hope to the hopeless and bring happiness to the poor,” Sabdani said after the eye operation.

“My aunt had lost hope and once told me she would die without seeing my face,” Sabdani said.

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