Orbis’ Third-Generation Flying Eye Hospital Completes Inaugural Mission to Shenyang
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APEX Insight: The third-generation Flying Eye Hospital, an initiative by APEX’s official partner charity Orbis International, completed its inaugural mission to Shenyang, China, earlier this month. To coincide with World Sight Day, which takes place today, the eye care nonprofit launched a campaign called #WithoutSight that aims to raise public awareness about blindness.
Earlier this month, Orbis International’s third-generation Flying Eye Hospital completed its inaugural mission to Shenyang, China, where a team of volunteer doctors performed sight-restoring surgeries on children and local community members. Orbis has also provided training to doctors in China, in order to help create a sustainable eye healthcare infrastructure.
APEX is proud to call the international eye care nonprofit its official partner charity. Structural Integrity Engineering (SIE) is one of many APEX member companies that helped make this mission possible by providing the technical engineering, design, certification and systems integration necessary to convert a FedEx MD-10 freighter into a fully functioning medical facility, including a sterilization room and operating room. “It was unquestionably the most satisfying aircraft modification project SIE has undertaken in 35 years of business,” said John Courtright, director of Sales and Marketing at SIE. “The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital demonstrates what profound good can be created when people from such diverse areas as medicine and aerospace technology focus on a common mission of saving sight around the globe.”
“It was unquestionably the most satisfying aircraft modification project SIE has undertaken in 35 years of business.” – John Courtright, SIE
Orbis has also launched a campaign called #WithoutSight, coinciding with World Sight Day, to raise public awareness about blindness as a major international public health issue by asking people to imagine their lives without sight.