Name: Building Eye Care Capacity in Gondar, Ethiopia- Part 1
Uploaded: 2015-01-04T14:47:04.000Z
Duration: 2 min 26 s
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Gondar University department of Ophthalmology,

the only tertiary eye care center in the Amhara region.

And in Gondar we have been working since 2004

and the first project was to develop a comprehensive eye care service

within the existing secondary eye care unit in Gondar.

with all the other great necessary infrastructure, equipment,

and creating a child-friendly environment.

Now our objective is to develop a tertiary eye care center

more focused on pediatric ophthalmology. So we have a child-friendly

pediatric eye care department in Gondar, and the main objective of this project is to

continue the reduction of avoidable blindness

The Amhara region is the second largest in terms of geography or population in Ethiopia.

in Gondar for referral treatment and management,

so it's one of the tertiary eye care centers that

provides training for cataract surgeons, optometrists, ophthalmologists

so it has a huge implication in terms of not only for the Amhara region,