Maj. Marcus Neuffer, 455th Expeditionary Medical Group ophthalmologist, explains application directions for medicine to a 12-month boy’s mother in the Korean hospital on Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, July 7. The boy was diagnosed with cataracts among other conditions. Neuffer is currently the only doctor on Bagram who is qualified to operate on eyes. If a local patient comes in to one of the humanitarian hospitals, the Korean or Egyptian hospital, and is need of an eye surgery, they are brought to the American hospital. According to Nueffer, a child’s eye sight stops developing at about eight. If corrective surgery can be performed before then, with glasses, children should be able to regain enough vision to perform daily tasks. He is deployed from Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Staff Sgt. Stephenie Wade)
Staff Sgt. Stephenie Wade
Taken on 7 July 2013
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