10-07-2025
Burkina Faso's only eye doctor for children sees the trauma of both play and conflict
BOBO-DIOULASSO, Burkina Faso — Isaka Diallo was playing with friends when a stone struck his left eye. For two weeks, his parents searched hospitals in western Burkina Faso for an eye doctor. The village clinic only prescribed painkillers. Other health workers did not know what to do.
When they eventually found Dr. Claudette Yaméogo, Burkina Faso's only pediatric ophthalmologist, the injury had become too difficult to treat.
