Community Eye Health:
Eye care training programmes can be accredited to ensure they meet quality standards
Community Eye Health:
Everyone within the health system has to work together to ensure that a patient with cataract will receive the best possible care from start to finish
Community Eye Health:
A planning meeting
Community Eye Health:
An ophthalmic clinical officer observes a community health worker examining a patient's eyes so that he can offer helpful feedback and support, if needed
Community Eye Health:
Regular communication and careful planning supports the patient's journey
Community Eye Health:
The red reflex is easier to see in a darkened room
Community Eye Health:
The child in this image has a cataract in the left eye. Refer the child to a specialist
Community Eye Health:
Pinhole testing can be carried out by nurses or other primary health care workers to detect patients who need refractive error care
Community Eye Health:
When an eye programme has a nonclinical manager, organising outreach activities will become one of his or her main responsibilities
Community Eye Health:
Ophthalmic nurses are involved in school health screening in Botswana
Community Eye Health:
Operating theatre nurses are given an orientation session in the use of IOL injectors
Community Eye Health:
An OCO refractionist (right) with a patient
Community Eye Health:
The normal red reflex
Community Eye Health:
Beam splitters can have one port, or adapter (top), or two ports (bottom)
Community Eye Health:
The optical components of the assistant scope are almost identical to the main scope and consist of either fixed or inclinable binoculars.
Community Eye Health:
The assistant scope, camera and other attachments connect to the beam splitter by means of a coupler that is made to fit the port of a particular model of beam splitter