This week, Brazilian ophthalmic surgeon Dr. Ana Catarina arrived in Gaza to begin the ophthalmology surgery mission. Dr. Anna Catarina is performing life-improving eye surgeries at the European Gaza Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip. She performed a donor cornea transplant at the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip and trained the team on modern methods of corneal transfer. Dr. Catarina is part of the ophthalmology committee on our medical advisory board and has been on past volunteer missions to Palestine with PCRF.