Ophthalmology
Covers preventive, curative, and emergency eye care with primary goals to prevent and control blindness and improve general eye health.
Goals achieved through:
- Affordable and accessible ocular surgeries, such as cataract surgery and glaucoma surgery
- Prompt attention and treatment of ocular emergencies
- Correction of refractive errors by providing affordable lenses and prescription glass frames
- Screening for diseases like glaucoma to prevent permanent visual loss
- Health talks and education to promote awareness
Eye Surgeries Available:
- Lid repair / blepharoplasty
- Tarsorraphy
- Bilamellar tarsal rotation
- Pterygium excision
- Pterygium excision + grafting
- Symblepharon release
- Examination under anaesthesia
- Cataract surgery with PCIOL
- Cataract surgery with ACIOL
- Secondary posterior capsulotomy
- Orbitotomy
- Corneal repair
- Excisional biopsy (eyelid mass, conjunctival mass)
- Corneal repair with uveal tissue abscission
- Scleral repair
- Peripheral iridectomy
- Combined Cataract surgery / trabeculectomy
- Incision and curettage
- Anterior chamber paracentesis
- Orbital reconstruction
- Orbital implant / prosthesis placement
- Adhesiolysis
- Evisceration
- Enucleation
- Exenteration