Eastern Region holds Eye care perfomance review
A three-day Eye care performance review workshop to study how to streamline eye care into main health care delivery system in the Eastern Region opened on Wednesday in Koforidua.
The workshop is being attended by optometric nurses, optometric surgeons and stakeholders in eye care from the 26 districts of the region.
The Eastern Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Erasmus Agongo, said despite the huge support that eye care in the region had received over the years, the performance of the sector does not measure up to the expected standard.
He said cataract is one of the major eye care problem in the country and in the region but the rate of cataract surgeries in the area is not commensurate with resources and support given to that area.
He said there is evidence that the region could improve upon its performance through team work and synergies among eye care providers in the region.
Dr Agongo said the performance review meeting would also look at how to sustain performance in the region after the withdrawal of support by Sight Savers, their Development Partners, on eye care in five years time.
Mr George Akanlu, Programme Manager of Sight Savers International, said the organization had now moved from looking at eye care from disease focused approach to looking at it from social determinant of health care.
He said presently the major issue is how to streamline eye care into the main health delivery system.
Source: GNA