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The Impact of Development in Marginalised Communities: Eye Health, Productivity and Sustainability Ms Patricia Ferguson – CEO & President Dr Santosh Moses – Asst. Director Eye Health.
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The Impact of Development in Marginalised Communities: Eye Health, Productivity and Sustainability Ms Patricia Ferguson – CEO & President Dr Santosh Moses – Asst. Director Eye Health
Avoidable blindness will be eliminated when every low income country has a health care system that includes eye care they can fund with their own resources.
Principles • Focus on the root causes. • Co-investment. • Comprehensive care. • Quality. • Sustainability.
5 years of development 17 hospital partners • Financially sustainable in their operating costs. • More than doubled the number of patients treated. • Doubled the number of surgeries. • More than doubled the revenue of the original 41 partners.
Eye camps to hospital-based community eye health programs • Strong referral system. • Increased patient volume. • Improved hospital productivity.
The impact of development • Improved health status. • Improved social and economic status. • Greater financial independence.
Sub-standard care is not a solution to providing health care in low income countries.
Invest development funds to play a catalytic role that will support change and progress, without undermining institutional development.