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The Impact of Development in Marginalised Communities: Eye Health, Productivity and Sustainability

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

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  1. The Impact of Development in Marginalised Communities: Eye Health, Productivity and Sustainability Ms Patricia Ferguson – CEO & President Dr Santosh Moses – Asst. Director Eye Health

  2. 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.

  3. Charity does not equal development.

  4. Principles • Focus on the root causes. • Co-investment. • Comprehensive care. • Quality. • Sustainability.

  5. From Control to Elimination

  6. Focus on the root causes of disease

  7. Changing Panoramas

  8. Clean Faces

  9. 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.

  10. Eye camps to hospital-based community eye health programs • Strong referral system. • Increased patient volume. • Improved hospital productivity.

  11. The impact of development • Improved health status. • Improved social and economic status. • Greater financial independence.

  12. Sub-standard care is not a solution to providing health care in low income countries.

  13. Invest development funds to play a catalytic role that will support change and progress, without undermining institutional development.

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