This time we operated only three people, since many of the people that had turned up were suffering from cataracts, and that is a more complicated operation which cannot be done in a village setting. MaliMali has sponsored cataract campaigns too (see blogs December 2011 and 2013) and then a specially equipped  truck arrives to Djenné from Bamako with a team who operated on a 100 patients. This is very expensive (6 000 000 FCA= E9230). In comparison a Trachoma campaign like the one we have just begun costs 500 000FCFA (E770) and we will operate on 50 patients over the next few weeks in many different villages.