"I'm the only ocularist in Uganda. Apart from me, there's no one in the country to make prosthetic eyes for people who have lost or damaged their own."
"When making a prosthetic eye, I measure the socket space and create a mould, which I then refine, paint and polish. Polishing takes a long time, and can be boring, but you need to get the surface perfectly smooth or it might irritate the surrounding tissues and allow germs to grow."
"Matching the colours of the iris and sclera - the white of the eye - with the wearer's own colouring takes skill, practice and determination. I find Black people's irises more difficult to paint than the eyes of white people."
"That's nowhere near enough to serve all the people in Uganda who need them, but for the rest, there are stock eyes that are imported from India. Sadly, those are often poorly made and they are rarely a good match for Africans."
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