OIA EYE CARE CENTRE
OIA has commenced the building of the “OIA India Eye Care Centre” at the Zewditu Memorial Hospital Campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Centre will start its full-fledged operations by 2011 and plans to diagnose 100,000 patients and perform 10,000 sight restoring eye surgeries per year.
There is a severe shortage of health facilities and eye care specialists that offer medium to large scale services in the country. The Centre would also serve as a resource for strengthening the capacities of the existing specialized eye care centres. The OIA Centre will offer patients state of the art modern diagnostic and surgical services through its Outpatient departments, minor and major operation theaters, in-patient facilities and administrative offices.” It will also act as a training centre for local ophthalmologists and paramedics on various aspects on modern eye care. Going forward, the Centre plans to set up facilities in the field of Cataract, Refractive Error, Pediatric Ophthalmology, Glaucoma, Medical Retina
and Cornea. |