Hundreds of patients received free eye exams April 23 at a vision clinic sponsored by the Cupertino De Anza Lions Club. No medical insurance or proof of citizenship was required to receive a free exam.
Ten volunteer doctors and 70 non-medical volunteers—most of them Lions Club members—spent nine hours seeing 349 patients at the clinic, held at St. John Vianney Community Center in San Jose. Most patients received recycled eyeglasses from the Lions’ inventory collected from schools, libraries, hospitals and banks. Unusual prescriptions were ordered from an online glasses supplier that donates them to vision clinics.
Lines built up as the doctors worked to keep up with flow of people, but by the end of the day, everyone had been seen. Some patients—both children and adults—put on glasses for the first time at the clinic.
The Lions Club is planning a similar clinic for October.
Source: www.mercurynews.com