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Webinar – Primary Eye Health Care

A child, a mother and a grandmother sit around a bowl preparing green leafy vegetables. All are smiling. The grandmother is wearing two greeen eye patches (post surgery), one patch has been removed from her right eye but the tape is still attached to her cheek.
Primary eye health care workers can detect, counsel, and refer patients with cataract to the nearest eye unit. MOZAMBIQUE © Ulrich Eigner CC BY-NC 4.0

A webinar was held on Monday 13th June 2022 to celebrate the recent CEHJ issue: ‘Primary Eye Health Care’ and discuss ideas around primary eye health care within health care and more generally.

Speakers included Professor Clare Gilbert, Dr Ada Aghaji and Dr Daksha Patel, discussing the articles:

  • What is primary eye health care?
  • Why is primary eye health care needed?
  • Delivering eye health promotion – why and how
  • The role of the secondary level eye care teams in engaging with and supporting primary eye care

An audio recording of the session is available here

Speaker slides are available here:

  • Why is primary eye health care needed, Clare Gilbert
  • Delivering Eye Health Promotion, Ada Aghaji
  • Role of secondary eye care in relation to primary eye care, Daksha Patel
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