Kenyan Doctors Work to Eliminate Trachoma by 2020

Health workers in Kenya say more than 60,000 people are living with trachoma, an infectious eye disease that causes blindness if not treated early.  Medical professionals are working in a remote village to bring an outbreak of the disease under control. In this remote rural district in southern Kenya, a local trachoma monitor teaches a group of women how to prevent the eye disease and also how and where to get treatment. Lester Mortai is well known in this area for his work...

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