Zimbabwe eye health strategy until 2018

 Zimbabwe Eye Strategy

"Visual impairment and blindness affects large numbers of people from various walks of life. Avoidable blindness accounts for the highest burden of blindness and poses great challenges in prevention and controlling particularly in resource constrained environments such as Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe eye conditions an diseases are currently among the top five causes for hospital outpatient department visits. Major eye conditions include refractive errors, conjunctivitis, cataract, trauma and glaucoma.

Major causes of avoidable blindness includes cataracts, glaucoma, trauma, diabetic retinopathy and refractive errors.

The number of people developing blindness and visual impairment in Zimbabwe is expected to increase due to lack of awareness, limited access to services, increased prevalence of hypertension, diabetes and other infectious diseases.

 

 

Prevalence of blindness  is estimated at 125,000 (1 % of total population)  80% of which are avoidable

The eye health strategy seeks to address issues of access to quality eye care services , non communicable diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension and infectious HIV which contribute to eye diseases and blindness.

The national eye health strategy has 5 key result areas

1.Prevention and control of eye diseases and conditions
2. Human resources development and retention for eye health
3. Infrastructure, equipment, medicine and technologies
4. Health management of information system, research and M and E
5. Resource mobilization
6. Programme

The strategy was formulated to address the gaps with in the current eye health service delivery systems and targeting priority eye conditions. "

[ extracted from The National Eye Health Strategy 2014-2018) For  Zimbabwe]  available in our library. For more on this strategy visit our library to access it.

A reminders of resources in our collection on eye health 

1. Pediatric ophthalmology : a clinic guide by Gallin
2. Clinical ophthalmology by Kanski
3.Ophthalmology by Yanoff and Daker
4.Contact lenses A-Z by Efron
5.Glaucoma by Kansi and Mcallister
6.Clinical procedures in promary care by Elliot

7.Eye Surgery in hot climates by Sandford-Smith and Hughes
8.Eye essentials for every doctor by Simcock
9.Synopsis of clinical ophamology
10. Complications of cataracts urgery a manual by Noble and Simmons
11. Management of diabetic retinopathy by Hamliton, Ulbig and Polkinghorne

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