March 6, 2020

The Association of Caribbean Glaucoma Surgeons (ACGS): focusing the spotlight on glaucoma in the Caribbean

Lecturer in Ophthalmology, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago

Organisation: The University of the West Indies

For World Glaucoma Week, Desiree Murray on formation of the Association of Caribbean Glaucoma Surgeons ... For World Glaucoma Week 2018, my blog highlighted the challenges in preventing blindness and visual impairment from glaucoma in Trinidad and Tobago [1]. These include a lack of awareness in the community and health provider inattention, which result in suboptimal…

May 10, 2019

The importance of learning

Tisia Cumberbatch

It is a humbling honour to become the first Certified Registered Nurse in Ophthalmology in the Caribbean; humbling in the sense that I never imagined it being possible. In 2006 a medical illness led me to being reassigned to the eye ward. But I was determined to make the most of this new adventure. There…

March 7, 2019

Haitian Nurses Find Vision in Primary Eye Care

Haleigh Cole Perry

Programs Director

Organisation: CharityVision

In the most tumultuous and poverty-stricken country in the Western Hemisphere, maintaining hope and vision for life can be a challenge. Because of chronic political and economic instability, an incredible two-thirds of Haiti’s labor force is without a stable job, forcing the majority of the population to struggle and fail to make even basic ends…

March 13, 2018

Challenges in preventing blindness and visual impairment from glaucoma in Trinidad and Tobago

Desiree Murray

Lecturer in Ophthalmology, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago

Organisation: The University of the West Indies

For World Glaucoma Week, Dr Desirée Murray, Lecturer in Ophthalmology at The University of the West Indies on challenges in preventing blindness and visual impairment from glaucoma in Trinidad and Tobago. Risk factors for open-angle glaucoma (OAG) include African ancestry, age, higher intraocular pressure (IOP), and family history of glaucoma, thinner central corneal thickness and myopia. The Caribbean…