There are five Mission Hospitals with Resident ophthalmologists and a couple of Private Eye Clinics. Fifty percent of the current national CSR is provided by the ophthalmologists in Mission health facilities and those in private practice. The initiative adopted by OSG is to encourage ophthalmologists in public practice to improve on their performance and thus increase the cataract surgical coverage.
This report features Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), where the Head of the Eye Unit and his Team have taken on board “Adopt a District Initiative” and are providing regular outreach cataract surgical service.
Dr. Seth Lartey, Head of the Eye Unit of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, and his Team have adopted three Ejura Sekyere-dumasi, Amansie East and Amansie West Districts in the Ashanti Region to provide cataract surgical services in order to bring relief and restore sight to people who need the service closer to them at the district level.
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A 3-day VISION 2020 training workshop on Leadership, Advocacy and Resource Mobilization was organized in collaboration with IAPB, ICEH and WAHO for Eye Care Providers at Ange Hill Hotel, East Legon in Accra, Ghana from the 21st to 23rd September 2009. There were a total of thirty participants. These included all five National Eye Care Coordinators from Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, The Gambia and Sierra Leone,
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