the impact of development in marginalised communities: eye health, productivity and sustainability
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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.
Charity does not equal development.
Principles
Focus on the root causes. Co-investment. Comprehensive care. Quality. Sustainability.
From Control to Elimination
Focus on the root causes of disease
Changing Panoramas
Clean Faces
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.