Services
Broad-casting Messages using National and Local Radio and Television
Some of the topics includes:
what is cataract? Is there any treatment for it? Can you treat it medically? why even a baby can get cataract,
Is blindness coming with age?
what is glaucoma? why do you need to be screened for it?
Why using traditionnal medecines( herbals, breast milk, urine, water sea ) is harmful to the eye?
Trachoma: what happen for somebody to get low vision or blindness due to it? How to avoid it and what kind of hygenic measures to apply?
Can diabetes induce blindness?
Nationwide Outreach Programme
We travel across the Nation on a medical outreach program to cater for those with eye problems. Our main focus is on those in the deprived arears who cannot reach us.
Central African Republic is a country of 623 000 Km2 and traveling to offer our services to a poor person leaving as far as 600km to 1000km from an eye clinic is not an easy task.
Eye Screening
Screening in schools for pupils with refractive errors and providing them free correction with spectacles
Cooperation with other Disciplines
To organize Medico-Surgical Outreach involving :
Cardiologist: screening for hypertension
Diabetologist: screening for diabetes
Internal medecine: infectious diseases
Ophthalmologist: preventable eye diseases
Can you "eat" an ELEPHANT alone?
To tackle avoidable eye diseases in Africa in general and particularly in Central African Republic, we need Multi disciplinary approach.
We need the support of leaders in our communites, clean environment, water, sanitation, good nutrition and health workers.