Saturday, December 22, 2012

Portland Program Sees To Immigrants' Eye Health

This eye doctor is helping immigrants in his community, many have never been to an eye doctor and definitely need this care.    - - Donna Poisl

by MEREDITH LAWRENCE

One Monday a month, a room at one of Portland’s Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization centers fills with new immigrants from across the world, all brought together by a need for eye care.

Many of them have never seen an eye doctor. Because of this need, Dr. Summy To of Myopic Optometry devotes one morning a month to offering free eye exams to the immigrants supported by the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization or IRCO.
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