GCN Webinar with African Eye Surgeon

In the Ivory Coast, a nation with twenty-nine million people, there are only twenty eye surgeons. Among those twenty, Dr. Jeremie Agre is the only glaucoma specialist.

Let’s just say that he knows what it is like to feel overwhelmed by needs.

Yet, rather than falling into despair or wallowing in gloom, he serves as many people as possible. In addition to running his eye surgery center in the capital city of Abidjan, Dr. Agre travels numerous times a year into rural areas where he performs up to one hundred cataract surgeries per week, usually in make-shift facilities.

From Dr. Agre, we learn that professional life, regardless of what we do, always involves the inability to see the future and, therefore, the fearful necessity of traveling on unfamiliar paths. In this adventure, we cannot go wrong if we serve others.