Introduction HMIS is implemented in a hospital for managing patient care and related administrative functions. It has the potential to improve the efficiency of overall system through automation and generates necessary reports for managing operations, performance, quality, planning, decision-making and reporting for projects. One should be aware that merely implementing HMIS will not by itself…
Initiatives to promote access to eye care for vulnerable people are important to reduce blindness worldwide. This includes the availability of quality care and community awareness on eye health issues. This is what the Seeing is Believing project in Côte d’Ivoire has been working on. Indeed before the onset of this programme no regional hospitals…
The major eye care providers in India include the government health care system, private hospitals and non-government health providers such as not-for-profit eye hospitals. Many of these not-for-profit hospitals serve poor communities by providing affordable eye care (free or at a comparatively low rate). They then rely on charity donations or try to balance the…
Achieving a goal of universal health coverage is a complicated aspiration with many moving parts. The rate of cataract surgeries among the marginalised population of India has significantly increased, thanks to government-run health insurance programmes (Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna and the recently launched Ayushman Bharat), and an increase in government allocation of financial assistance to…
Introduction to Sightsavers’ Seeing is Believing project in Tanzania Sightsavers’ Maono Project has been working with the Singida Regional Authority since April 2016 to support and strengthen the regional referral hospital and district health facilities to increase demand for eye care and enable eye health treatment to be brought closer to the communities. Since the…
This World Sight Day, we are shining a spotlight on SiB’s pioneering partnership with Peek, who we have supported through the SiB Innovation Fund since 2014. In 2011, Dr Andrew Bastawrous left his role as an Ophthalmologist in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) to set up 100 eye clinics in Kenya as part of…
BACKGROUND The way eye health services are financed plays a large role in the take up of surgery. When people cannot afford the high cost of eye care, they either choose not to have surgery and become blind or risk putting the family in deeper poverty by paying for the surgery. Lack of reimbursement for…
In October 2019 we held a series of SiB Webinars on ‘Financing Eye Health’. Where SiB projects explained how they engage with the Eye Health financing systems in their regions. Please see the Webinar recordings below: SiB South East Asia & Western Pacific Regional Webinar recording: SiB Africa Regional Webinar recording: To view recordings of…
In 2017, Seeing is Believing, supported The Fred Hollows Foundation Kenya to implement a two-year Diabetic Retinopathy Project in Nairobi and the surrounding areas. This project is coming to an end in December 2019 after going through a learning phase. Diabetic Retinopathy has gained significance in the back-drop of an ever increasing burden due to…
The project works in partnership with the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC), the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) and the Regional Authority in all seven districts of Singida. The main purpose of the project is to contribute to the sustainable provision of school eye health for primary school…
”A National Pilot Program of Comprehensive Training for Eyecare Teams at China’s County Hospitals”, one of Seeing is Believing projects in China started from 2016. Over 50 county hospitals joined the training project, total 127 eye doctors, 75 nurses, and 47 refractionists from county hospitals in Shandong, Sichuan, Shandong and Hebei provinces were trained so…
Community outreach programmes have been an integral part of Aravind Eye Care System (AECS) from its inception in 1976[i]. For over 4 decades, the outreach eye camps have worked extremely well in identifying and surgically treating cataract patients in high volumes. In the 2018-19 financial year, Aravind Eye Hospitals screened more than 560,000 patients and…
Background There is substantial evidence that refractive error remains the most common cause of visual impairment among school –going children[1][2][3][4]. The prevalence of visual impairment caused by refractive error in school going children in Nigeria is estimated to be 5 – 8%[5][6] and even higher in older children, 10 to 11 years and above[7][8][9]. For…
With the support of Seeing is Believing, Operation Eyesight has completed a four-year Phase V project to strengthen the quality of eye care delivery in the Rift Valley region of Kenya. Through partnerships with the Ministry of Health and county departments from six counties, the Rift Valley Region Prevention of Blindness Project targeted three main…
Seva Foundation (“Seva”) works with program partners around the world to ensure that their institutions have a sustainable human resource pipeline that prioritizes local skilled workers and ongoing training. In Cambodia, where 38 ophthalmologists are serving the country’s population of 15 million, there is an overwhelming need for well-trained ophthalmologists – as well as other…
If we look at the burden of blindness in India, cataract and uncorrected refractive error constitute approximately 80 percent of the eye conditions resulting in visual impairment and blindness; both disorders are completely avoidable. A simple pair of spectacles, timely diagnosis, referral and treatment at an appropriate eye facility is all it takes to eliminate…
Sustainability is at the heart of the projects and constitutional part of any project design. Eye care projects are without exception. Sustainable eye care programmes are one in which the interest and benefits achieved by programme are preserved long after donor endow has ended. An example of this project is Diabetic Retinopathy Seeing is believing…
The key to sustainable eye care in any global region is high-quality education. In the past 20 years, the Eye Care Foundation has been actively supporting the bachelor of optometry course in the Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine in Ho Chi Minh City (VN). In August 2019, in frames of the project “Sight for…
Designed to improve the eye health of schoolchildren, the Viet Nam Child Eye Care (VNCEC) Project brought together partners from the health and education sectors to develop and adopt national guidelines on school eye care. This project is funded by Standard Chartered Bank, under the fifth phase of the “Seeing is Believing” initiative. Resulting from…
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