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Kwale District Eye Centre - Kenya
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Making Donations and the Eye Give Shop |
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You can make a donation on-line or by sending us a cheque. The 'Eye Give' shop allows you to tell us exactly how you want your donation to be used. You have a choice of eye care items such ranging from £5 for reading glasses, £30 for a cataract operation to £200 to pay a trained nurse’s salary for 1 month. You can make an Eye Give donation on behalf of others, which is ideal for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries and other special occasions. Please go to the Donations page
and the Shop page for further information. |
Above: the photographs show just some of the people who have benefited from a donation made on your behalf…..Thank you |
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TrainingThis is perhaps the most important thing we do long term, both clinically and in the community. |
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Training of Medics: KDEC is approved by the Medical Practitioner and Dentist board as a training centre for specialist recognition in Ophthalmology. It has been training Ophthalmology students from the University of Nairobi. Ophthalmic registrars do a practical attachment in both clinical work and surgery. KDEC has trained 6 ophthalmologists so far. Kenya Medical Training college (KMTC) sends Ophthalmic Clinical Officers / Cataract surgeons to KDEC for their practical attachment. 8 students have been trained to date. Training of nurses in ophthalmic skills upgrading and Training for Facilitators for this is planned for June 2012 in Kwale. In cooperation with other main eye-care service providers and general medical institutions in the coast region, we hold regular caucus meetings and Continuous Medical Education for ophthalmologists and clinical officers in post. |
Surgical teaching is a very important part of our work. In the photograph shown above Professor Schuette visiting from Germany teaches our clinical officer squint surgery |
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Training of Teachers and community Students:
Training of the community:
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Research |
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Main fields
Publications: 1. Lewallen S, Roberts H, Hall A, et al. Increasing cataract surgery to meet Vision 2020 targets; experience from two rural programmes in east Africa. Br J Ophthalmol. 2005; 89:1237-40 2. Briesen S, Roberts H. Repair of Descemet’s membrane detachment with air. East African J Ophth. 2008 3. Briesen S. Roberts H, Ilako D, Karimurio J, Courtright P. Are blind people more likely to accept free cataract surgery? A study of vision-related quality of life and visual acuity in Kenya. Ophthalmology (in press) 4. Briesen S, Karimurio J, Kollmann M, Roberts H. Is biometry feasible in remote cataract eye-camps. Experiences from an outreach to Northern Kenya. JCRS (in press) 5. Briesen S, Schulze-Schwering M, Roberts H et al. Minimal contamination risk of Icare single use probes. Submitted to Br. J. Ophth. |
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Did you know? |
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Above: the new sign that stands by the main road 500 metres from the Eye Centre. |
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Links to other sitesClick here for a page of links to web sites that provide useful information for eye patients and links to some of our supporters who specialise in helping those with eye problems. For further information about the work of the Kwale District Eye Centre please browse the site.
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